| Location: | Carroll County, Virginia, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 36.80313, -80.78424 |
| dep_id: | 10106169 |
| mrds_id: | W030849 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper |
| Trace mineral: | Iron, Pig Iron, Arsenic, Zinc, Lead |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cubanite, Cuprite, Galena, Goethite, Malachite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite |
| gangue: | Actinolite, Biotite, Chlorite, Dolomite, Garnet, Muscovite, Oligoclase, Quartz |
| orebody_fm: | POD/LENS |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| model: | 91: Massive sulfide, Besshi (Japanese deposits) |
| alteration: | Low Grade Regional Metamorphism (Almandine Garney Grade) |
| conc_proc: | Exhalations From Distal Volcanic Vent(S) Produced Sulfides As Submarine Precipitates. Some Further Concentration Due To Metamorphism And Deformation, With Later Supergene Enrichment Of Copper Ores. |
| ore_ctrl: | Lenticular Troughs |
| Reporter: | Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.), Myers, Lesley L. |
| hrock_unit: | Lynchburg Group, Ashe Formation |
| hrock_type: | Schist,Gneiss,Amphibolite |
| Structure: | Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, Fries Thrust, 3 Phases Of Deformation Regionally |
| tectonic: | Orogen |
| Year first produced: | 1854 |
| dy_ba: | < |
| disc_yr: | 1861 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: CURREY, R.O., 1859, A GEOLOGICAL VISIT TO THE VIRGINIA COPPER REGION: KNOXVILLE, TENN., BECKETT, HAWS AND CO.; REPRINTED IN PART UNDER COPPER AND IRON REGION OF THE FLOYD-CARROLL-GRAYSON PLATEAU OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN VIRGINIA, ETC.: THE VIRGINIAS, 1880, V. 1, P. 62-64, 69-71, 74-77, 80-81, 95.
- Deposit:: ROSS, C.S., 1935, ORIGIN OF THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE DUCKTOWN TYPE IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 179, 165 P.
- Deposit:: WEED, W.H., 1911, COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE APPALACHIAN STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 455, 166 P.
- Deposit:: WATSON, T.L., 1907, MINERAL RESOURCES OF VIRGINIA: LYNCHBURG, VA., J. P. BELL CO., 618 P.
- Deposit:: CONLEY, J.F., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 59, 33P.
- Deposit:: CRAIG, J.R., HENRY, DONALD K., AND GILBERT, CHARLES, 1978, THE GREAT GOSSAN LEAD IN GAIR, J.E., ED., MASSIVE SULFIDES OF VIRGINIA FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN FILE REPORT 78-1068, P.57-84.
- Deposit:: WRIGHT, R.J., AND RAMAN, N.D., 1948, THE GOSSAN LEAD, CARROLL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT, 19 P.
- Deposit:: 1854 DIREXPL TENNESSEE VIRGINIA MINING CO.: PRODUCTION BEGUN
- Deposit:: 1893 DIREXPL E.C. MOXHAM: O PERATED MINE
- Deposit:: 1902 DIREXPL VA. IRON, COAL COKE CO.: DRILLED EXPLORATORY HOLE .
- Deposit:: 1911 RECON W.H. WEED: BULL. 455. }1935 RECON C.S. ROSS: PROF. PAPER 179 }1948 RECON R.J. WRIGHT AND N.D. RAMAN: OPEN-FILE REPORT
- Production:: CURREY (1859), WEED (1911)
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