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Umbarger Mine

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. 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 10067298
MRDS ID VA01789
Record type Site
Current site name Umbarger Mine
Alternate or previous names Greene Mine Local Name

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.37482, 36.76619 (WGS84)
Elevation 914
Relative position 11,350 FEET S 17 DEG E OF JCT US 16 AND SR 601 IN DOWNTOWN SUGAR GROVE.

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

George Washington National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

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 FLANK OF LITTLE MTN., BETWEEN CRESSY CRK AND KIRK HOLLOW.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Psilomelane Ore

Analytical data

Result (1917 ORE): MN 24%, FE 30%, SIO2 6-8%, P 0.151-0.227%

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) -81.37482, 36.76619
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 60.96M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pulaski-Wythe District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Manganese Products Co. (Philadelphia, Pennsylavania) Early 1900'S

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 609.6M
    Overall width 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE CUT 200 FT. LONG, 100 FT WIDE, 100 FT HIGHWALL; AND SEVERAL SMALLER PITS AND TRENCHES. IN 1917, ORE WAS WORED WITH TWO STEAM SHOVELS AND TRAMMED TO WASHER ON CREASY CREEK. A LOG WASHER WAS IN USE IN THE 1940'S WITH WATER FROM CREASY CRK AND A WELL. LARGE PIECES OF ORE WERE HAND PICKED. MINE MAP IN MILLER, 1944, P. 134.

Comments on development

  • WASHER HAD CAPACITY OF 300 TPD (1917). STORAGE BINS NEAR WASHER HAD 750 T CAP. (1917). WORKED BY MR. FOX IN 1890'S. ARTHUR SHORT (SUGAR GROVE) MINED 500 T OF MN IRON AND 50 T OF 41% MN CONC. THE SOUTHERN MN & FE CO. IN 1916. MN PRODUCTS CO. 1917 & 1918. CLOSED 1918. 1941: N.T. DIXON SHIPPED 2 CARLOADS OF MN ORE. 1942 SUGAR GROVE MINING CO. MINE CLOSED IN MID-1940'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STOSE, G.W., MISER, H.D., KATZ, J.J., AND HEWETT, D.F., 1919, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE WEST FOOT OF THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA: VGS BULLETIN 17, P 143-145.

  • Deposit

    GOOCH, E.O., 1954, IRON IN VIRGINIA: VDG MRC 1, P. 9.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, RALPH, L., 1944, GEOLOGY AND MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE GLADE MTN DISTRICT: VGS BULLETIN 61, P. 123-137.

  • Deposit

    LEE ASHLIN, SUGAR GROVE, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, 1988.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS A MIXTURE OF PSILOMELANE & BRN IRON ORE. THE PERCENTAGE OF MN WORSENS WITH DEPTH. ORE OCCURS IN POCKETS AND MASSES AND AS FRAGMENTS AND CONCRETIONARY NODULES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1988 Wilkes, Gerald P. (Sweet, Palmer C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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