1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Red Bank Mine

Past Producer in Halifax county in Virginia, United States with commodity Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079779
MRDS ID W030513
Record type Site
Current site name Red Bank Mine
Alternate or previous names Goldbank Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.74474, 36.59951 (WGS84)
Elevation 136
Relative position 7.2 KM (4.5 MI) NE OF VIRGILINA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Halifax(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nelson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

South Boston(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greensboro(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Dan(hydrologic unit)

Roanoke(hydrologic accounting unit)

Chowan-Roanoke(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Halifax

Comments on the location information

  • BEHIND HOUSE, 0.3 KM (0.2 MI) OFF NORTH SIDE OF STATE ROAD 602, 0.56 KM (0.35 MI) BY ROAD EAST OF JUNCTION WITH STATE ROAD 606.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MUCH OF THE GOLD WAS VERY FINE AND SO WAS LOST DURING THE AMALGAMATION PROCESS.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Hematite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result THE QUARTZ VEIN YIELDED GOLD ORE VALUED AT ?8 PER TON ACROSS ITS ENTIRE WIDTH.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Meta-Basalt
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Rock unit name Aaron Formation (Middle Member)
    Rock description Aaron Formation (Middle Member)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.74474, 36.59951
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Virgilina Synclinorium, Ne-Sw Trend

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR, PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike NEARLY N-S
    Dip NEARLY VERTICAL
    Width 1.8M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • AARON FORMATION IS EQUIVALENT TO EFLAND FORMATION IN N.C.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1903
Discoverer H.C. Crowell
Year of first production 1903

Mining district

District name Virgilina District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Red Bank Gold Mines, Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Hamme Sisters

Comments on the production information

  • DURING 1906, ABOUT 10 T. OF ORE PER DAY WERE MILLED AT THE MINE .

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 198M
    Overall depth 61M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHAFTS WERE SUNK, ONE ABOUT 15 M (50 FT) AND THE OTHER ABOUT 61 M (200 FT) DEEP. ABOUT 198 M (650 FT) OF DRIFTS WERE DUG. THE FIRST LEVEL AT A DEPTH OF ABOUT 21 M (70 FT) EXTENDS 113 M (370 FT) SOUTH AND 37 M (120 FT) NORTH OF THE SHAFT. THE SECOND LEVEL (AT AN UNKNOWN DEPTH) EXTENDS ABOUT 27 M (90 FT) SOUTH AND 30.5 M (100 FT) NORTH OF THE SHAFT. CONSIDERABLE STOPING HAD BEEN DONE, BUT LITTLE OR NONE OF IT EXTENDS BELOW THE 21 M LEVEL. ALL DRIFTING AND DEVELOPMENT WORK HAS BEEN CONFINED TO THE ONE VEIN. IN 1974 A CAVED SHAFT, REMAINS OF OLD STAMP, AND PIECES OF MACHINERY WERE EVIDENT.

Comments on development

  • THE MINE WAS DISCOVERED AND BEGAN OPERATION IN 1903 BY H.C. CROWELL. SHORTLY AFTER THE DISCOVERY, W.T. HARRIS JOINED MR. CROWELL IN THE DEVELOPMENT WORK. IN 1905 THEY SOLD THE PROPERTY TO THE VIRGILINA MINING CO., WHO OPERATED THE MINE UNTIL 1912. IN 1937 JOE AND RICHARD HAMME OF VIRGILINA REOPENED THE MINE AND IN 1941 THE RED BANK GOLD MINES, INC. TOOK OVER OPERATIONS. W.A. MILLIKEN AND L.W. LONG OF WARRENTON RAN RED BANK GOLD MINES, INC. THE MINE PRODUCED $22,000 WORTH OF GOLD FROM 1903 TO 1912 AND MINOR AMOUNTS OF GOLD FROM 1937 TO 1942. THE SURFACE PLANT CONSISTED OF A SMALL STAMP MILL CONTAINING 2 BATTERIES OF 5 STAMPS EACH, ORE BINS, CRUSHER, AND POWER PLANT. IN 1942 A SMALL AMALGAMATION MILL WAS UTILIZED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LANEY, F.B., 1917, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE VIRGILINA DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 14, 176 P.

  • Deposit

    SWEET, P.C., 1971, GOLD MINES AND PROSPECTS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA MINERALS, V. 17, NO. 3, P. 25-33.

  • 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, JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION COMMISSION, P. 549-567.

  • Deposit

    1903 DIREXPL MESSRS. H.C. CROWELL & W.T. HARRIS: BEGAN DEVELOPMENT.

  • Deposit

    1905 DIREXPL VIRGILINA MINING CO.: OPERATED MINE.

  • Deposit

    1941 DIREXPL RED BANK GOLD MINES, INC.: OPERATED MINE

  • Deposit

    1974 RECON VA. DIV. MIN. RES. INSPECTED SITE.

  • Production

    SWEET (1971), LANEY (1917)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE VEIN APPEARS TO FOLLOW THE DIP AND STRIKE OF THE SCHISTOSITY OF THE COUNTRY ROCK. IT VARIES IN WIDTH FROM A FEW INCHES TO 6 FT (1.8 M). THE RICHEST PARTS OF THE VEIN ARE THE REDDISH AREAS THAT ARE CAUSED BY HEMATITE IN THE SILICIFIED COUNTRY ROCK{ SMALL AMOUNTS OF PYRITE ARE ALSO PRESENT IN THE UPPER SULPHIDE ZONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1981 Trimble, David, C. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site