Mine detail: Virginia and Pittsburgh Copper Co. Prospects

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Location

Lat / long:

38.89643, -78.20749

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Malachite
Gangue:	Epidote, Quartz
Orebody form:	LENSE ()
Discovery year:	1925

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Catoctin Greenstone
Host type:	Meta-Basalt
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, Front Royal Fault
Tectonic:	Orogen

References

MRDS	W032039
DEP	10080698
Reference	RADER, E.K., AND BIGGS, T.H., 1975, GEOLOGY OF THE FRONT ROYAL QUADRANGLE, VIRGINIA: VA. DIV. MIN. RES., REPT. OF INVESTIGATIONS 40, 91 P
Reporter	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.)