Mine detail: Capola Mountain Mine

Location:	Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States, North America
Lat / long:	38.97532, -78.56222
dep_id:	10080715
mrds_id:	W032058
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Manganese
Minor mineral:	Iron
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small ammount of material produced
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Limonite, Manganite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Wad
orebody_fm:	IRREGULAR
work_type:	Surface/Underground
conc_proc:	Minerals Were Probably Leached From The Once Overlying Black Devonian Shales.
ore_ctrl:	Fractures, Joints, And Small Faults In The Sandstone Produced By Tight Folding.
Reporter:	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.)
hrock_unit:	Ridgeley Sandstone
hrock_type:	Sandstone
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trend, Mt. Pleasant Syncline
tectonic:	Miogeosyncline
yfp_ba:	<
Year first produced:	1860
yr_lst_prd:	1938
dy_ba:	<
disc_yr:	1860
References:	Deposit:: MONROE, W.H., 1942, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF CEDAR CREEK VALLEY, FREDERICK AND SHENANDOAH COUNTIES, VIRGINIA: USGS BULL 936-E, PP. 111-141. Deposit:: YOUNG, R.S., AND RADER, E.K., 1974, GEOLOGY OF THE WOODSTOCK, WOLF GAP, CONICVILLE, AND EDINBURG QUADRANGLES, VIRGINIA : VDMR REPT. OF INVESTIGATIONS 35, 69 P. Deposit:: STOSE, G.W., AND MISER, H.D., 1922, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF WESTERN VIRGINIA: VGS BULL 23, 206 P. Deposit:: POWELL, S.L., 1919, REPORT ON MANGANESE DEPOSITS IN FREDERICK AND SHENANDOAH COUNTIES: UNPUBLISHED REPORT, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY FILES, VDMR: 8 P.