Mine detail: Howard Showalter Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

38.63476, -78.82112

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc
Secondary:	Sulfur-Pyrite
Ore:	Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Dolomite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Beekmantown Formation
Host type:	Dolomite
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trend, Little North Mountain Fault, Anticlinal Cross-Warp (Nw-Se Trend), Linville Creek Syncline
Tectonic:	Geosyncline

References

MRDS	W031322
DEP	10080218
Reference	{Deposit:: BRENT, W.B., 1960, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, BULLETIN 76, 174 P.}{Deposit:: SCHERFFIUS, W.E., 1969, ZINC-LEAD-FLUORITE MINERALIZATION IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY, NORTH-CENTRAL VIRGINIA: UNPUBLISHED M.S. THESIS, CORNELL UNIVERSITY.}
Reporter	Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.)