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Winn Prospect 1910

Past Producer in Wythe 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  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 10067294
MRDS ID VA01785
Record type Site
Current site name Winn Prospect 1910
Alternate or previous names Wedlight Mine, Langley Mine, The Ol' Ore Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.29871, 36.84729 (WGS84)
Elevation 869
Relative position 7200 FT. N 21 DEGREES W OF JCT. SR 614 AND 749 IN CEDAR SPRINGS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wythe(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 Wythe

Comments on the location information

  • IN A SADDLE BETWEEN THE EAST FLANK OF GLADE MTN AND AN UNNAMED RIDGE. ON THE WEST SIDE OF SR 670. ASSUMED A LOCATION AT CENTER OF DISTURBED AREA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Psilomelane Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Shady
    Rock description Shady
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.29871, 36.84729
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Economic information

Ore body information

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

Comments on the geologic information

  • CONTINENTAL MARGIN ENVIRONMENT OF DEPOSITION.

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 1945
Year of last production 1957

Mining district

District name Pulaski-Smyth District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner C. J. Langley (New York) - Late 1950'S.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Mrs. Buck Of Rural Retreat - 1987.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 396.24M
    Overall depth 7.62M
    Overall length 396.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • AREA IS HIGHLY DISTURBED BY RIDGES AND TRENCHES MADE BY BULLDOZERS.

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY DEFINED AS INACTIVE PROSPECT UNTIL 1940'S WHEN MN WAS PRODUCED FROM THIS SITE. BEFORE 1940, 7 PROSPECT PITS TREND N 60 DEGREES W, SEVERAL OTHERS LOCATED OFF THIS TREND; LARGEST CUT WAS 60 FT. LONG, 12 FT FACE. DURING THE MID-1940'S THE PROSPECT WAS ENLARGED TO A SMALL ACTIVE PRODUCER BY SEVERAL DIFFERENT OPERATORS, ALL GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED FOR THE WAR EFFORT. PRODUCTION FROM THIS JOB AND OTHERS NEARBY WERE REPORTEDLY HAULED OFF TO RR AT RURAL RETREAT BY 8 TO 10 TON DUMP TRUCK AND BURIED AT UNKNOWN LOCATION AS PART OF STRATEGIC MINERAL REPOSITORY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STOSE, 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. 140-142.

  • Deposit

    MR. ERNEST TERRY, DEC. 1987, PERSONAL COMM., RURAL RETREAT

  • Deposit

    MR. E. NICHOLES, DEC. 1987, PERSONAL COMM., RURAL RETREAT.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE NODULES ARE AGGREGATED INTO TABULAR MASSES BUT RANDOMLY EMPLACED WITHIN THE WEATHERED SHADY DOLO.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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