Mine detail: Showalter Prospect

Previously called 'Snapp Creek Prospect'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.52032, -78.93168

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead
Secondary:	Sulfur-Pyrite
Ore:	Galena, Pyrite
Gangue:	Dolomite, Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1862

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence
First production started:	1862

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	W031325
DEP	10080221
Reference	{Deposit:: BRENT, W.B., 1960, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, BULLETIN 76, 174 P.}{Deposit:: HERBERT, P., JR., AND YOUNG, R.S., 1956, SULFIDE MINERALIZATION IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF GEOLOGY, BULLETIN 70, 58 P.}{Deposit:: SCHERFFIUS, W.E., 1969, ZINC-LEAD-FLUORITE MINERALIZATION OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY, NORTH-CENTRAL VIRGINIA: UNPUBLISHED M.S. THESIS, CORNELL UNIVERSITY.}{Deposit:: DIREXPL PROSPECT PIT DUG}
Reporter	Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.)