Mine detail: Pat Keith Prospect

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 36.81675, -82.34985

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Lead
Ore: Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue: Calcite, Dolomite
Discovery year: 1918

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:Copper Ridge Dolostone;Maryville Limestone
Host type:Dolomite
Structure:Ne-Sw Trend, Honaker Fault, Copper Ridge Syncline
Tectonic:Miogeosyncline

References

MRDSW031330
DEP10080226
Reference{Deposit:: COOPER, B.N., 1945, INDUSTRIAL LIMESTONES AND DOLOMITES IN VIRGINIA: CLINCH VALLEY DISTRICT: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 66, 259 P.}{Deposit:: WOODWARD, H.P., 1938, OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 49, 91 P.}{Deposit:: 1918 DIREXPL DEPOSIT PROSPECTED.}{Deposit:: 1930 DIREXPL DEPOSIT PROSPECTED.}{Deposit:: 1938 GEOLMAP VA. GEOL. SURV.: ISSUED BULL. 49.}
ReporterMeintzer, Robert E. (Sweet, P. C.)