| Location: | Carroll County, Virginia, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 36.70869, -80.93148 |
| dep_id: | 10080124 |
| mrds_id: | W031206 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Iron, Pig Iron |
| Minor mineral: | Zinc, Copper, Lead, Iron, Arsenic |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Galena, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Stannite, Tetrahedrite |
| gangue: | Actinolite, Biotite, Calcite, Chlorite, Graphite, Ilmenite, Muscovite, Quartz, Rutile, Tremolite |
| orebody_fm: | POD/LENS |
| model: | 91: Massive sulfide, Besshi (Japanese deposits) |
| alteration: | (Almandine) - Medium Grade Regional Metamorphism Has Converted Pyritic Mass To Pyrrhotite During Arcadian (?) Orogeny. |
| conc_proc: | Sulfides Emplaced Possibly As A Submarine Precipitate Resulting From Exhalations From A Volcanic Vent. |
| Reporter: | Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.) |
| hrock_unit: | Lynchburg Formation |
| hrock_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 |
| Year first produced: | 1962 |
| disc_yr: | 1789 |
| References: |
- 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)
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