Mine detail: Fairmont Copper Mine

Previously called 'Fairmount Copper Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 36.80618, -80.7773

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Arsenic, Zinc, Lead, Iron, Iron, Pig Iron
Ore: Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Covellite, Cubanite, Cuprite, Galena, Goethite, Malachite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Biotite, Dolomite, Garnet, Muscovite, Oligoclase, Quartz
Orebody form: POD/LENS
Discovery year: 1861

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1855

Geology

Host rock:Lynchburg Group, Ashe Formation
Host type:Schist,Gneiss,Amphibolite
Structure:Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, Fries Thrust, 3 Phases Of Deformation Regionally, General Strike Of Trenches And Rock Exposed In Shaft Walls Is N 60 E
Tectonic:Orogen
Alteration processes:Low Grade Regional Metamorphism (Almandine Garnet Grade)

References

MRDSW030853
DEP10079981
Reference{Deposit:: CURREY, R.O., 1859, A GEOLOGICAL VISIT TO THE VIRGINIA COPPER REGION: KNOXVILLE, TENN., BECKETT, HAWS AND CO.; REPRINTED IN PART UNDER COPPER AND IRON REGION OF THE FLOYD-CARROLL-GRAYSON PLATEAU OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN VIRGINIA, ETC.: THE VIRGINIAS, 1880, V. 1, P. 62-64, 69-71, 74-77, 80-81, 95.}{Deposit:: ROSS, C.S., 1935, ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN TYPE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFFESSIONAL PAPER 179, 165 P.}{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 BULLETIN 72, 233 P.}{Deposit:: WRIGHT, R.J., AND RAMAN, R.D., 1948, THE GOSSAN LEAD, CARROLL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT, 21 P.}{Deposit:: CONLEY, J.F., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 59, 33P.}{Deposit:: 1855 DIREXPL TENNESSEE & VIRGINIA MINING CO.: PRODUCTION BEGUN.}{Deposit:: 1911 RECON W.H. WEED: BULL. 455.}{Deposit:: 1935 RECON C.S. ROSS: PROF. PAPER 179}{Deposit:: 1939 GEOLMAP VA. GEOL. SURV.: BULL. 72.}{Deposit:: 1948 RECON R.J. WRIGHT & N.D. RAMAN: OPEN-FILE REPORT}{Production:: CURREY (1859)}
ReporterMeintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.), Myers, Lesley L.