Mine detail: Hightop Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 38.31477, -78.56751

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Cuprite, Malachite
Gangue: Epidote, Jasper, Quartz
Orebody form: POD/LENS, IRREGULAR
Discovery year: 1914

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1905

Geology

Host rock:Catoctin Formation
Host type:Meta-Basalt
Associated rock:Catoctin Formation
Associated type:Meta-Basalt
Structure:Blue Ridge Anticlinorium
Tectonic:Orogen
Alteration processes:Hydrometamorphism, Epidotization

References

MRDSW030901
DEP10080020
Reference{Deposit:: SWEET, P.C., AND BELL, P.C., 1980, METALLIC MINERALIZATION IN THE BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE OF VIRGINIA, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO VIRGINIA GEOLOGY - IV: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 27, P. 39-52.}{Deposit:: PHALEN, W.C., 1906, COPPER DEPOSITS NEAR LURAY, VIRGINIA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 285, 506 P.}{Deposit:: WEED, WALTER H., 1911, COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE APPALACHIAN STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 455, 166 P.}{Deposit:: 1905 DIREXPL HIGHTOP COPPER CO.}{Deposit:: 1944 OTHER UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO RE-OPEN.}{Deposit:: 1974 RECON VA. DIV. OF MINERAL RESOURCES; SITE INSPECTED.}
ReporterBeaulieu, Harvey R. (Le Van, D. C.), Sweet, Palmer C.