Mine detail: Riverville Hematite Mines

Previously called 'Divestone Ridge Hematite Mines'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.53228, -78.9103

Resource(M)

Primary: Iron
Ore: Hematite, Magnetite
Orebody form: LENSES AND BANDED AND INTERBANDED IRON FORMATION
Discovery year: 1875

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1800
Last production ended: 1883

Geology

Host rock:Mt Athos Member, Alligator Back Formation, Lynchburg Group
Host type:Quartzite,Mica Schist
Structure:Smith River Allocthon

References

MRDSW055354
DEP10106397
Reference{Deposit:: FURCRON, A.S., 1935, JAMES RIVER IRON AND MARBLE BELT, VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 39, 124P. (PL.13, P.93-94).}{Deposit:: ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1954, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE JAMES RIVER-ROANOKE RIVER MANGANESE DISTRICT, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1008, 155P. (PL.2, P.140)}{Deposit:: FRAZER, PERSIFOR, JR., 1883, THE IRON ORES OF THE MIDDLE JAMES RIVER, VA: AMER. INSTITUTE MIN. ENG. TRANS., VOL. 11, P.212.}{Deposit:: BENTON, E.R., 1886, NOTES ON THE SAMPLES OF IRON ORE COLLECTED IN VIRGINIA: UNITED STATES TENTH CENSUS, VOL. 15, P.267-268.}{Deposit:: GOOCH, E.O., 1954, IRON IN VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES CIRCULAR NO. 1, P.15.}
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