Mine detail: Boyd Prospect

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Location: Nelson County, Virginia, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.80227, -78.95307
dep_id: 10080117
mrds_id: W031197
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Mineral Pigments, Titanium, Metal
Minor mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Ilmenite
gangue: Biotite
orebody_fm: LINEAR
work_type: Surface
conc_proc: Magmatic Differentiation
Reporter: Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.)
arock_type: Gneiss,Granite
Structure: Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium
tectonic: Orogen
disc_yr: 1885
References:
  • Analytical Data:: SRC.REF: FISH AND SWANSON, 1964.
  • Deposit:: FISH, G.E., JR., AND SWANSON, V.F., 1964, TITANIUM RESOURCES OF NELSON AND AMHERST COUNTIES, VA., (IN TWO PARTS), 2. NELSONITE: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 6429, 25 P.
  • Deposit:: HERZ, N., 1969, THE ROSELAND ALKALIC ANORTHOSITE MASSIF, VIRGINIA IN ISACHSEN, Y.W. (ED.), ORIGIN OF ANORTHOSITE AND RELATED ROCKS: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM AND SCIENCE SERVICE, MEMOIR 18, P. 357-367.
  • Deposit:: HILLHOUSE, D.N., 1960, GEOLOGY OF THE PINEY RIVER-ROSELAND TITANIUM AREA, NELSON AND AMHERST COUNTIES, VIRGINIA: UNPUBLISHED PH.D. THESIS, VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.
  • Deposit:: WATSON, T.L. AND TABER, S., 1913, GEOLOGY OF THE TITANIUM AND APATITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 3-A, 308 P.
  • Deposit:: 1889 DIREXPL VIRGINIA MINING AND MANUFACTURING CO.: SUNK SHAFT
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