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Glade Mountain Mine 1910

Past Producer in Smyth county in Virginia, United States with commodities Manganese, Iron
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067273
MRDS ID VA01764
Record type Site
Current site name Glade Mountain Mine 1910
Alternate or previous names Wedlight Mine, Langley Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.34038, 36.8359 (WGS84)
Elevation 991
Relative position 14600 FT. N 89 DEGREES W OF JCT SR 614 AND 749 IN DOWNTOWN CEDAR SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Smyth(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cedar Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wytheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winston-Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper New(hydrologic unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Jefferson National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

George Washington and Jefferson National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Smyth

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH SIDE KILLINGER CREEK ON SOUTH FLANK OF GLADE MTN; ENE OF LOCUST MTN AND NORTH OF WHITE ROCK MTN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.34038, 36.8359
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Mine Is On South Flank Of Easterly Plunging Anticline.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR/TABULAR
    Plunge 20 DEGREES E
    Plunge direction N 60 DEGREES E
    Thickness 9.14M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ERWIN AT THIS LOCAL IS INTBD CGL, SS, FINE SHALY SS, AND BRECCIATED QTZITE 100 FT. WIDE AND E-W TRENDING. MN AND FE FILLINGS IS NOTED WITHIN THE BRECCIA, BUT RICHER CONCENTRATIONS CAN BE FOUND OUTSIDE THE BRECCIA AND STILL WITHIN THE ERWIN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1910
Year of first production 1910
Year of last production 1957

Mining district

District name Pulaski-Smyth District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner C. J. Langley - Late 1950'S
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Forest Service

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 4.57M
    Overall length 762M
    Overall width 304.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • PRE-1940: LARGEST OPENING = 100 FT. WIDE, 50 FT. INTO HILL, WITH A 30 FT. HIGHWALL. SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS WITHIN IMMEDIATE AREA. ORE WAS WASHED AT SITE 2000' SE OF MINE ALONG NORTH SIDE OF KILLINGER CREEK AND SOUTH OF OLD CCC ROAD. POST 1940 = DEPOSIT WAS WORKED WITH DOZERS AND PANS AND TRUCKED TO WASHER LOCATED 5000' EAST OF MINE, ALONG NORTH SIDE OF KILLINGER CREEK AND OLD CCC ROAD. MINE SITE RECLAIMED IN THE 1970'S BY US FOREST SERVICE.

Comments on development

  • EARLY DEVELOPMENT (EARY 1900'S) INDICATES THIS TO BE A PROSPECT, BUT GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED MINING BY C.J. LANGLEY OF NEW YORK AND WILSON WEDLIGHT OF TEXAS AND OTHERS DURING THE 1940'S & 1950'S MAKES THIS AN ABND PRODUCING MINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STOSDE, G.W., MISER, H.D., KATZ, F.J., HEWETT, D.F., 1919, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE WEST FOOT OF THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA: VGS BULLETIN 17, PP. 148-149.

  • Deposit

    MR. ERNEST TERRY, RURAL RETREAT, DECEMBER 1987, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION.

  • Deposit

    MR. E. NICHOLES, RURAL RETREAT, DECEMBER 1987, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "IN A FEW PLACES THE WORKINGS HAVE CUT THROUGH ORE INTO SOFT CLAY, SUGGESTING THE DEPOSIT AS A WHOLE MAY BE A THIN SURFACIAL CAP." (STOSE, ET AL, 1919, P. 149). SEE GEOLOGY COMMENTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1987 Wilkes, Gerald P. (Sweet, Palmer C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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