Mine detail: Betty Baker Mine

Previously called 'Bettie Baker MinePaint Bank MineCarter Mine.'

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Location

Lat / long: 36.84535, -80.72424

Resource(B)

Primary: Copper, Iron, Pig Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite
Secondary: Iron, Mineral Pigments
Tertiary: Zinc, Lead
Ore: Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cubanite, Cuprite, Galena, Goethite, Hematite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Actinolite, Biotite, Calcite, Chlorite, Dolomite, Graphite, Ilmenite, Muscovite, Quartz, Rutile, Tremolite
Orebody form: POD/LENS
Discovery year: 1854

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1854

Geology

Host rock:Lynchburg Group, Ashe Formation
Host type:Schist,Arkose
Structure:Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, Fries Thrust, Gossan Lead Thrust, Main Sulfide Zone Strikes N 45 E And Dips 30-60 Se.Ips 30-60 Se., Fries Overthrust., Cross Fault With 10 M Offset At Ne End.
Tectonic:Orogen
Alteration processes:(Almandine)-Low Grade Regional Metamorphism (415-455 Deg. C, 5-5.5 Kb) Has Partially Converted Originally Pyritic Mass To Predominantly Pyrrhotite During Acadian (?) Orogeny.

References

MRDSW030845
DEP10079974
Reference{Deposit:: HENRY, D.K., CRAIG, J.R., AND GILBERT, M.C., 1979, ORE MINERALOGY OF THE GREAT GOSSAN LEAD, VIRGINIA: ECON. GEOL. V. 74, NO. 3, P. 645-656.}{Deposit:: KLINE, M.H., AND BALLARD, T.J., 1949, INVESTIGATION OF THE GREAT GOSSAN LEAD, CARROLL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPT. INV. 4532, 39 P.}{Deposit:: POOLE, J.L., 1973, IRON SULFIDE MINES IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA MINERALS, V. 19, NO. 3, P. 29-33}{Deposit:: STOSE, A.J. AND STOSE, G.W., 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, BULL. 72, 233 P.}{Deposit:: CONLEY, JAMES F., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 59, 33P.}{Deposit:: WRIGHT, R.J., AND RAMAN, N.D., 1948, THE GOSSAN LEAD, CARROLL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT, 19 P.}{Deposit:: 1854 DIREXPL MEIGS COUNTY, TENN., & VA. MINING CO.: MINED SUPERGENE COPPER.}{Deposit:: 1911 RECON W.H. WEED: BULL 455.}{Deposit:: 1928 DIREXPL VA. IRON, COAL & COKE CO.: CONDUCTED EXPLORATORY DRILLING.}{Deposit:: 1935 RECON C.S. ROSS: PROF. PAPER 179.}{Deposit:: 1947 DIREXPL U.S. BUREAU OF MINES: CONDUCTED EXPLORATORY DRILLING}{Deposit:: 1948 RECON R.J. WRIGHT & N.D. RAMAN: OPEN-FILE REPORT.}{Production:: HENRY AND OTHERS (1979), POOLE (1973)}{Reserve-Resource:: CORRIVEAU, M.P., 1956, MINERAL DRESSING STUDIES ON THE GREAT GOSSAN LEAD ORE FORM CARROLL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA POLYTECH. INST. BULL; ENG. EXPT. STA. SER. NO. 113, 79 P.; GAIR, J.E. AND SLACK, J.F., 1978, STRATABOUND MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS OF THE U.S. APPALACHIANS IN REVIEW OF STRATABOUND APPALACHIAN-CALEDONIAN SULFIDE DEPOSITS: IRELAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (IN PRESS)}
ReporterMeintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.), Myers, Lesley L.