Mine detail: Nuckols Prospect

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Location

Lat / long: 37.68088, -77.69248

Resource(M)

Primary: Titanium, Metal
Ore: Ilmenite, Rutile
Gangue: Biotite, Kaolinite, Microcline, Muscovite, Plagioclase, Quartz
Discovery year: 1845

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence
First production started: 1910

Geology

Host rock:Pegmatite;State Farm Gneiss;Amphibolite;Pyroxenite
Host type:Gneiss,Pegmatite
Associated rock:Pegmatite;Amphibolite;Pyroxenite
Associated type:Pyroxenite,Amphibolite,Pegmatite
Structure:Ne-Sw Trend, Dome
Tectonic:Piedmont

References

MRDSW031194
DEP10080114
Reference{Deposit:: BROWN, C.B., 1937, OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOL. SURV., BULL. 48, 68 P.}{Deposit:: GOODWIN, B.K., 1970, GEOLOGY OF THE HYLAS AND MIDLOTHIAN QUADRANGLES, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, REP. INV. 23, 51 P.}{Deposit:: HESS, F.L., 1910, NEW RUTILE DEPOSITS NEAR RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: MINING WORLD, V. 33, P. 305-307.}{Deposit:: WATSON, T.L., AND TABER, S., 1913, GEOLOGY OF THE TITANIUM AND APATITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOL. SURV., BULL. 3-A, 308 P.}{Deposit:: GRAHAM, E. NUCKOLS, 1984, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION.}{Deposit:: 1800 DIREXPL AREA PROSPECTED DUE TO MISIDENTIFICATION OF RUTILE FOR PROUSTITE/PYRARGYRITE.}{Deposit:: 1910 DIREXPL TITANIUM ALLOY CO.: PROSPECTED FOR RUTILE.}
ReporterMeintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.), Sweet, Palmer C.