Mine detail: Gossan Howard Mine

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Location

Lat / long:

36.70869, -80.93148

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron, Pig Iron
Secondary:	Zinc, Copper, Lead, Iron, Arsenic
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Galena, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Stannite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Actinolite, Biotite, Calcite, Chlorite, Graphite, Ilmenite, Muscovite, Quartz, Rutile, Tremolite
Orebody form:	POD/LENS
Discovery year:	1789

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1962

Geology

Host rock:	Lynchburg Formation
Host type:	Schist
Structure:	Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, Ne-Sw Trend, Gossan Lead Overthrust, Fries Overthrust, Main Sulfide Zone Strikes N. 45 Deg. E. And Dips 30-60 Deg. Se., Foliation Strikes Ne, Dips Se.
Tectonic:	Orogen
Alteration processes:	(Almandine) - Medium Grade Regional Metamorphism Has Converted Pyritic Mass To Pyrrhotite During Arcadian (?) Orogeny.

References

MRDS	W031206
DEP	10080124
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:: POOLE, J.L., 1973, IRON SULFIDE MINES IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA MINERALS, V. 19, NO. 3, P. 29-33.}{Deposit:: ROSS, C.S., 1935, ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN TYPE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION: U.S. GEOL. SURV. PROF. 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, BULL. 72, 233 P.}{Deposit:: 1911 RECON W.H. WEED: BULL. 455.}{Deposit:: 1935 RECON C.S. ROSS: PROF PAPER 179.}{Deposit:: 1948 RECON R.J. WRIGHT & N.D. RAMAN: OPEN-FILE REPORT.}{Deposit:: 1962 DIREXPL ALLIED CHEMICAL CORP.: OPENED PIT}{Deposit:: 1976 OTHER ALLIED CHEMICAL CORP: CEASED OPERATION}{Production:: HENRY AND OTHERS (1979)}
Reporter	Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.)