Mine detail: Green Mountain Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

38.92476, -78.34861

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Ore:	Limonite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1860

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1860

Geology

Host rock:	Bloomsburg Formation
Host type:	Mudstone,Sandstone
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trend, Massanutten Synclinorium, Syncline, Anticline
Tectonic:	Miogeosyncline

References

MRDS	W032042
DEP	10080701
Reference	RADER, E.K., AND BIGGS, T.H., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE STRASBURG AND TOMS BROOK QUADRANGLES, VIRGINIA: VA. DIV. MIN. RES., REPT. OF INVESTIGATIONS 45, 104 P
Reporter	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.)