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Leonard Mine

Past Producer in Russell county in Virginia, United States with commodity Barium-Barite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025705
MRDS ID K001633
Record type Site
Current site name Leonard Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -82.05651, 36.94479 (WGS84)
Elevation 561
Relative position 5.2 KM (3.25 MI) NORTHEAST OF LEBANON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russell(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lebanon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bristol(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Johnson City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clinch, Tennessee, Virginia(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Russell

Comments on the location information

  • 40 M (131 FT) SOUTH OF CEDAR CREEK AND ABOUT 2.2 KM (1.4 MI) SOUTH OF ITS JUNCTION WITH THE CLINCH RIVER. THE PROPERTY LIES WITHIN THE PURCHASE BOUNDARY OF THE JEFFERSON NATIONAL FOREST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BARITE REPORTED "FREE OF IMPURITIES SUCH AS FLOURITE AND IRON COMPOUNDS"

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Beekmantown Formation
    Rock description Beekmantown Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -82.05651, 36.94479
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend
Type of structure Local
Structure description Copper Ridge Syncline, Honaker Fault, Copper Creek Fault.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veins And Replacement Masses.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1902
Year of first production 1902
Production years 1902-1905

Mining district

District name Russell-Tazewell County Barite District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Clinch Valley Barytes Co.

Comments on the production information

  • LARGEST PRODUCER IN DISTRICT. ORE HAULED TO BLACKFORD BY RAIL AND WAGON FOR MILLING.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • EDMUNDSON BELIEVES THE LEONARD MINE HAS THE LARGEST BARITE RESERVE IN RUSSELL AND TAZEWELL COUNTIES.

Comments on the workings information

  • THE PRINCIPAL WORKING IS AN OPEN CUT ABOUT 30.5 M (100 FT) LONG, 15.3 M (50 FT) WIDE, AND 9.1 M (30 FT) DEEP. IN ADDITION THERE ARE SEVERAL SMALLER OPENINGS WHICH FORM A BENCH ABOUT 9.1 M (30 FT) ABOVE CEDAR CREEK AND EXTEND WEST OF THE MAIN OPEN CUT.

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS OPERATED BETWEEN 1902 AND 1905 BY THE CLINCH VALLEY BARYTES COMPANY. THE CRUDE BARITE WAS ELEVATED ABOUT 46 M (150 FT) TO THE TOP OF THE HILL SOUTH OF THE MINE, HAULED BY WAGONS TO CLEVELAND, AND THEN SHIPPED BY THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILROAD TO THE COMPANY'S MILLING PLANT SOUTHWEST OF BLACKFORD. ACCORDING TO SOME RESIDENTS THE LEONARD MINE WAS THE LARGEST PRODUCER IN THE RUSSELL-TAZEWELL COUNTIES AREA; OTHERS STATE THAT IT RANKED FAVORABLY WITH THE HUBBARD AND COUNTS MINES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LUTTRELL, G.W., 1966, BASE-AND PRECIOUS-METAL AND RELATED ORE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES, MINERAL RESOURCES REPT. 6, 164 P.

  • Deposit

    EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 53, 85 P.

  • Deposit

    WOODWARD, H P, 1938, OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 49, 91 P.

  • Deposit

    1902 DIREXPL CLINCH VALLEY BARYTES COMPANY- DUG OPEN CUTS MINED

  • Production

    EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, VA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 53.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BARITE OCCURS AS VEINS AND REPLACEMENT MASSES WITH A MAXIMUM THICKNESS OF 0.6 M (2 FT). MOST OF THE BARITE IS RESTRICTED TO A FRACTURE ZONE ABOUT 6.1 M (20 FT) WIDE IN THE DOLOMITE WHICH, ON ONE WALL, IS EXPOSED THE FULL DEPTH OF THE OPEN CUT. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT BARITE CONSTITUTES ABOUT 20 PERCENT OF THE MINERALIZED FRACTURE ZONE. THE BEDROCK IS DOLOMITE STRIKING N55DEGE AND DIPPING ABOUT 30DEGSE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1973 Fagan, James M. Tennessee Valley Authority
Updater 01-OCT-1980 Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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