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Allah Cooper Mine

Past Producer in Louisa county in Virginia, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Sulfur-Pyrite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067676
MRDS ID W000476
Record type Site
Current site name Allah Cooper Mine
Alternate or previous names Valcooper Mine, Ali Cooper Mine, Alley-Cooper Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -77.85915, 38.07394 (WGS84)
Elevation 88
Relative position 5.88 KM (3.65 MI) WEST OF GLENORA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Louisa(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lake Anna West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fredericksburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Washington(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pamunkey(hydrologic unit)

Lower Chesapeake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Chesapeake(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Louisa

Comments on the location information

  • 1.0 KM (0.6 MI) OFF SW SIDE OF STATE ROAD 652, 0.2 KM (0.1 MI) BY ROAD NW OF JUNCTION WITH STATE HIGHWAY 208.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Secondary
Sulfur-Pyrite Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE GANGUE IS QUARTZ AND MAGNETITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Magnetite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Chopawamsic Formation
    Rock description Chopawamsic Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -77.85915, 38.07394
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Columbia Syncline , Ne-Sw Trend ; Reg.Trends: N. 30-35 Deg. E., Dipping Steeply Southeast
Type of structure Local
Structure description A Fracture Zone Thought To Be Present . Foliation Strikes N 30-35 Deg E And Dips Steeply To Se.

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR VEIN
    Strike NE
    Dip SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: FRACTURE ZONE STRIKES NORTHEASTWARD AND CUTS THE SCHISTOSITY AT A SHARP ANGLE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1907
Year of first production 1907
Year of last production 1916
Production years PRE-1916

Mining district

District name Gold-Pyrite Belt

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner New Jersey Zinc Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Panaminas, Inc.

Comments on the production information

  • NO EXACT PRODUCTION FIGURES GIVEN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 366M
    Overall depth 107M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS COMPRISED AN INCLINED SHAFT 107 M (350 FT) DEEP WITH 6 WORKING LEVELS AT 15 M (50 FT) INTERVALS. THE UNDERGROUND DEVELOPMENT TOTALED APPROXIMATETY 366 M (1200 FT)? IN 1974, A WATER-FILLED SHAFT, WATER-FILLED PITS, CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS OF PLANT SITE, AND DUMPS WERE EVIDENT. GROSH (1949) HAS A MINE MAP SHOWING THE WORKINGS.

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS FIRSTED OPERATED FOR GOLD AND SILVER. WATSON STATES THE SITVER CONTENT WAS REPORTED TO BE UNUSUALLY TARGE. BOYD-SMITH MINES, INC. OBTAINED THE PROPERTY IN 1915 AND STARTED LEAD AND ZINC MINING. AN INCLINED SHAFT WAS SUNK AND A 50-TOV PER DAY GRAVITY CONCENTRATION MILL WAS ERECTED. VIRGINIA LEAD AND ZINC CORP. ACQUIRED THE PROPERTY IN 1916 AND CLOSED THE MINE BUT KEPT THE MILL RUNNING UNTIL 1918 BY SHIPPING ORE FROM THE NEARBY VALZINCO MILL. THE SURFACE PLANT AND MILL BUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED BY A FOREST FIRE IN 1923. VENTURES LTD. SECURED THE MINE SITE IN 1929 AND SOLD IT TO ITS SUBSIDIARY COMPANY, PANAMINAS INC. IN 1942. A 198 M (650 FT) HOLE WAS DIAMOND DRILLED IN 1943 BY THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES TO TEST THE ORE ZONE DOWNDIP FROM THE LOWEST MINE LEVEL. NO MINERALIZATION WAS FOUND WHERE THE HOLE WAS EXPECTED TO INTERSECT THE ORE ZONE (ABOUT 46 M (150 FT) BELOW THE LOWEST KNOWN MINE WORKINGS) AND NO FURTHER DRILLING WAS DONE. THE COMPLETE LOG OF THE DIAMOND DRILL HOLE CAN BE
  • FOUND IN GROSH (1949). NEW JERSEY ZINC PROSPECTED IN 1967. ; ECON.COM: WATER FOR MILLING IS AVAILABLE IN THE VICINITY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GROSH, W A, 1949, INVESTIGATION OF THE ALLAH COOPER LEAD-ZINC MINE, LOUISA COUNTY, VA: U S BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4604, 6 P.

  • Deposit

    POOLE, J L, 1974, NOTES ON SOME ABANDONED COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC MINES IN THE PIEDMONT OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA MINERALS, V 20, NO 2, P 9-14.

  • Deposit

    SWEET, P C, 1980, GOLD IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, PUBLICATION 19, 77 P.

  • Deposit

    WATSON, T.L., 1907, GOLD AND SILVER, IN MINERAL RESOURCES OF VIRGINIA: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, J.P. BELL CO., P. 549-567.

  • Deposit

    LUTTRELL, G.W., 1966, BASE- AND PRECIOUS-METAT AND RELATED ORE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VDMR, IN. RES. REPT. 7, 167 P.

  • Deposit

    1915 DIREXPL BOYD-SMITH MINES, INC: SUNK SHAFT AND ERECTED MILL.

  • Deposit

    1943 DIREXPL USBM: DIAMOND DRILLING, NEGATIVE RESULTS.

  • Deposit

    1974 RECON VA DIV MIN RES: INSPECTED SITE.

  • Production

    GROSH (1949)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE COUNTRY ROCK IS A QUARTZ-SERICITE SCHIST WITH FOLIATIONS REGIONALLY STRIKING N 30-35DEG E AND DIPPING STEEPLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. THE VEIN IS THOUGHT TO BE A SULFIDE FILLING OF A FRACTURE ZONE THAT ALSO STRIKES NORTHEAST AND DIPS SOUTHEAST, CUTTING THE SCHISTOSITY AT A SHARP ANGLE.
Deposit OPENED FIRST AS AU AND AG MINE. INCLINED SHAFT SUNK AND 50-TON GRAVITY CONCENTRATION MILL ERECTED IN 1915 BY BOYD-SMITH MINES, INC. PRODUCTION STOPPED IN 1916, BUT VA. LEAD AND ZINC CORP. OPERATED THE MINE UNTIL 1918 TO TREAT ORE FROM THE VALZINCO MINE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1972 Wright, Nancy A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Trimble, David, C. U.S. Geological Survey

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