Mine detail: Stonewall Manganese Mine

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Location

Lat / long:

37.44673, -78.97946

Resource(M)

Primary:	Manganese
Ore:	Psilomelane
Orebody form:	LENSE
Discovery year:	1937

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1937
Last production ended:	1941

Geology

Host rock:	Mt Athos Member Of Alligator Back Formation Of Lynchburg Group
Host type:	Quartzite
Structure:	Quartzite Crushed With Tight Folds And Lineations Plunging Steeply To Sw; Drag Folds Plunge Sw
Alteration processes:	Hanging Wall Quartzite Strongly Leached And Porous; Clay Beneath Quartzite Contains Blocks Of Rotted Quartzite From Slump Initiated By Solution Of Calcareous Rock.

References

MRDS	W055366
DEP	10082523
Reference	{Deposit:: ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1954, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE JAMES RIVER-ROANOKE RIVER MANGANESE DISTRICT, VIRGINIA BULL. 1008, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.}{Deposit:: CONLEY, J.F., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN PIEDMONT, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 59, 33P. (GENERAL GEOLOGY)}{Deposit:: FURCRON, A.S., 1935, JAMES RIVER IRON AND MARBLE BELT, VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL 39, 124P. (P.63-64).}
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