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

Shaw Mine

Past Producer in Fluvanna county in Virginia, United States with commodities Gold, Sulfur-Pyrite
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079842
MRDS ID W030585
Record type Site
Current site name Shaw Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.09971, 37.86199 (WGS84)
Elevation 107
Relative position 2.05 MI (3.30 KM) WEST OF TABSCOTT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fluvanna(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Caledonia(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dillwyn(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Roanoke(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle James-Willis(hydrologic unit)

James(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Chesapeake(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Fluvanna

Comments on the location information

  • MAIN WORKINGS AT POSITION DESCRIBED ABOVE, ADDITIONAL WORKINGS LOCATED AT UTM N 4195130. AND UTME 755150, 0.4 MI (0.7 KM) NNE. PRIMARY WORKINGS ON EAST SIDE OF A TRIBUTARY OF EAST BRANCH, 0.4 MI (0.6 KM) OFF EAST SIDE OF STATE ROAD 604 ABOUT 0.95 MI (1.53 KM) BY ROAD NE OF JUNCTION WITH FOREST ROAD 2956.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Sulfur-Pyrite Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

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 Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
    Rock unit name Chopawamsic Formation
    Rock description Chopawamsic Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.09971, 37.86199
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Columbia Syncline , Ne-Sw Trend

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1913
Year of first production 1913

Mining district

District name Gold-Pyrite Belt

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Richard C. Bowles And John P. Bradshaw Iii And Wife

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS SUNK. IN 1974, WATER-FILLED SHAFT (?), FIVE CAVED PITS AND TRENCH CUTS AND DUMPS EVIDENT.

Comments on development

  • PLACER OPERATIONS PROBABLY TOOK PLACE PRIOR TO CIVIL WAR WITH MINE DEVELOPMENT PROBABLY TAKING PLACE IN 1880'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    TABER, S., 1913, GEOLOGY OF THE GOLD BELT IN THE JAMES RIVER BASIN, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BULLETIN 7, 271 P.

  • Deposit

    SMITH, J. W., MILICI, R. C., AND GREENBERG, S. S., 1964: GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF FLUVANNA COUNTY, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, BULLETIN 79, 62 P.

  • Deposit

    1974 RECON VA. DIV. MIN. RES.: MINE LOCATED

  • Deposit

    DIREXPL MINE DEVELOPED

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SHAW VEIN OF GOLD HILL VEIN SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Meintzer (D. C. Levan), Robert E. 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