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Traynham Prospect Mine

Past Producer in Monroe county in West Virginia, United States with commodities Manganese, Nickel
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068215
MRDS ID W001166
Record type Site
Current site name Traynham Prospect Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.31645, 37.58339 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Monroe(county)

West Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Paint Bank(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lewisburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bluefield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper James(hydrologic unit)

James(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Chesapeake(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States West Virginia Monroe

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Nickel Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • COBALT NOT MENTIONED, BUT BELIEVED TO BE PRESENT

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.31645, 37.58339
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: MANGANESE OXIDES IN RESIDUAL CLAY DEVELOPED IN WEATHERED ORDOVICIAN AND SILURIAN ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years UNKNOWN

Mining district

District name Sweet Springs

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES UNKNOWN

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES UNKNOWN; PROBABLY SMALL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LADD, H.S., 1944, USGS BULL. 940-G

  • Reserve-Resource

    UNPUBLISHED COBALT REPORT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1973 Coury, Anny B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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