Mine detail: Vesuvius Mine

Previously called 'Fauber Mine'

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Location: Augusta County, Virginia, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.91199, -79.17142
dep_id: 10080127
mrds_id: W031210
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Manganese
Minor mineral: Iron, Cobalt, Nickel
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Goethite, Hematite, Lithiophorite, Manganite, Pyrolusite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
work_type: Surface/Underground
conc_proc: Nodule Formation
ore_ctrl: Residuum
Reporter: Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.), Sweet, Palmer C.
hrock_unit: Shady Formation
hrock_type: Clay, Mud,Quartzite
Structure: Buena Vista Anticline/Steeles Tavern Syncline, Thrust Faulting, Ne-Sw Trend
tectonic: Miogeosyncline
Year first produced: 1901
yr_lst_prd: 1959
References:
  • Deposit:: KNECHTEL, M.M., 1943, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE LYNDHURST-VESUVIUS DISTRICT, AUGUSTA AND ROCKBRIDGE COUNTIES, VIRGINIA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 940-F, 198 P.
  • Deposit:: STOSE, G.W., MISER, H.D, KATZ, F.J., AND HEWETT, D.F., 1919, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE WEST FOOT OF THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULLETIN 17, 166 P.
  • Deposit:: WERNER, H.J., 1966, GEOLOGY OF THE VESUVIUS QUADRANGLE, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 7, 53 P.
  • Deposit:: SPURGEON, R.C. AND *ONNELL, E.J., 1958, SOUTH RIVER MINE WHIPS A TOUGH MN ORE PROBLEM IN VIRGINIA, MINING AND ENGINEERING JOURNAL, VOL 159, NO 5.
  • Deposit:: 1940 DIREXPL VIRGINIA MANGANESE CORP.: WORKED MINE 1940-41, POSSIBLY LONGER; INSTALLED 3 JIGS, SHIPPED 1 CARLOAD IN 1941.
  • Deposit:: 1955 DIREXPL SOUTH RIVER MINING CO.: BUCKET DRILLED SITE AND SHIPPED HIGH-GRADE ORE TO GOVERNMENT STOCKPILE BETWEEN JUNE 1956 AND NOVEMBER, 1959; MR. RICHARD SPURGEON, SR. MANAGED THE OPERATION, PROBABLY AIDED BY GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY.
  • Deposit:: DIREXPL WORKED INITIALLY AS FAUBER MINE (ONE SHAFT SUNK. AROUND 1908 WORKED BY MANGANESE CORP. OF VA.; TWO MORE SHAFTS BEING SUNK. BY 1917 MINING OPERATIONS CEASED. 16 CARLOADS WERE SHIPPED IN 1919, PROBABLY DUE TO OPERATION BY VESUVIUS MANGANESE CORP.
  • Production:: KNECHTEL (1943), ITEMS 8-11); VDMR FILES, ITEMS 1-4)
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