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Anna Mary Mine

Past Producer in Carroll county in Virginia, United States with commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron, Pig Iron, Iron, Arsenic
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  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 10079973
MRDS ID W030843
Record type Site
Current site name Anna Mary Mine
Alternate or previous names F.L. Hale Properties

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.74341, 36.83007 (WGS84)
Elevation 783
Relative position 4.1 KM (13,500 FT) WEST OF LIBERTY HILL.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carroll(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hillsville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Galax(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Carroll

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION AND ELEVATION GIVEN FOR COLLAPSED PORTAL; WORKINGS EXTEND APPROXIMATELY 500 FT TO SW AND 800 FT TO NE. PORTAL ROUGHLY 1100 FT WEST OF ROUTE 768, 2200 FT (0.7 KM) NW OF JUNCTION WITH ROUTE 771. LOCATION FIELD CHECKED NOVEMBER 12-13, 1986 AND APRIL 8, 1987.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Iron, Pig Iron Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PAST MINING OPERATIONS CONCENTRATED ON SUPERGENE MINERALS (PRIMARILY CHALCOCITE, ALSO NATIVE COPPER AND CUPRITE).

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Copper Ore
Cuprite Ore
Galena Ore
Goethite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Muscovite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Low Grade Regional Metamorphism (Almandine Garnet Zone)

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 91
USGS model code 24b
Deposit model name Massive sulfide, Besshi (Japanese deposits)
Mark3 model number 30

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Lynchburg Formation
    Rock description Lynchburg Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.74341, 36.83007
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Blue Ridge Anticlimorium, Fries Thrust, 3 Phases Of Regional Deformation

Ore body information

  • General form POD/LENS
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 18.3M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1861
Year of first production 1855
Year of last production 1860

Mining district

District name Little Vine Segment/Gossan Lead District/Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Meigs County, Tennessee, And Virginia Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Texas Gulf (Forest Products Division)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 152M
    Overall depth 18.3M

Comments on the workings information

  • CURREY (1859): TOTAL DEPTH OF SHAFTS, 61 M; TOTAL LENGTH OF TUNNELS, 91 M (VALUES INCLUDE ANN ELIZA WORKINGS). AN ADIT AND SEVERAL TRENCHES WERE NOTED IN 1948. 1987: A SHALLOW TRENCH EXTENDS 500 FT S 65 W OF MAJOR PORTAL. AT HILLCREST, A SHALLOW TRENCH EXTENDS 50 FT TO SE AND ENDS AT A COLLAPSED SHAFT. NE OF PORTAL, OUTSLOPE TRENCH EXTENDS 200 FT N 65 E. ACROSS SMALL CREEK VALLEY, A SERIES OF SHALLOW TO MODERATELY DEEP TRENCHES EXTENDS 500 FT N 50 E TO A SHALLOW CROSSCUT TRENCH, WITH A PROBABLE COLLAPSED SHAFT AT 4075950N, 522990E.

Comments on development

  • MINE OPENED IN 1855 AND OPERATED WITH ANN ELIZA AS PART OF THE OPERATIONS ON F.L. HALE PROPERTIES. ALL TONNAGE FIGURES, WORKINGS, DESCRIPTIONS, ETC. ARE FOR THE COMBINED ANNA MARY - ANN ELIZA TREND.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CURREY, R.O., 1859, A GEOLOGICAL VISIT TO THE VIRGINIA COPPER REGION: KNOXVILLE, TENN., BECKETT, HAWS AND CO.; REPRINTED IN PART UNDER COPPER AND IRON REGION OF THE FLOYD-CARROLL-GRAYSON PLATEAU OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN VIRGINIA, ETC.: THE VIRGINIAS, 1880, V.1, P. 62-64, 69-71, 74-77, 80-81, 95.

  • Deposit

    HENRY, D.K., CRAIG, J.R., AND GILBERT, M.C., 1979, ORE MINERALOGY OF THE GREAT GOSSAN LEAD, VIRGINIA: ECON. GEOL., V. 74, NO. 3, P. 645-656.

  • Deposit

    STOSE, A.J., AND STOSE, G.W., 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, BULL 72, 233 P.

  • Deposit

    WRIGHT, R.J., AND RAMAN, N.D., 1948, THE GOSSAN LEAD, CARROLL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: U.S. GEOL. SURV. OPEN-FILE REPT., 21 P.

  • Deposit

    CONLEY, J.F., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 59, 33P.

  • Deposit

    LUTTRELL, GWENDOLYN W., 1966, BASE AND PRECIOUS METAL AND RELATED ORE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, MINERAL RESOURCES REPORT 7, 167P.

  • Deposit

    1855 DIREXPL MEIGS CO., TENN., & VA. MNG. CO.: OPENED MINE.

  • Deposit

    1911 RECON W.H. WEED: BULL 455.

  • Deposit

    1935 RECON C.S. ROSS: PROF PAPER 179.

  • Deposit

    1939 GEOLMAP VA. GEOL. SURV.: BULL. 72.

  • Deposit

    1948 RECON R.J. WRIGHT & N.D. RAMAN: OPEN-FILE REPORT.

  • Production

    CURREY (1859)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CURREY (1859) DESCRIBES THE ANNA MARY MINE AS THE MAJOR MINE HERE, AS DOES LUTTRELL (1966). I HAVE THEREFORE, ASSIGNED THE MAJOR COLLAPSED PORTAL TO THE ANNA MARY MINE AND THE SMALLER TO THE SW TO THE ANN ELIZA MINE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV
Deposit Discovery Year: PRE-CIVIL WAR
Deposit CURREY (1859) DESCRIBED THE DEPOSIT MINED HERE AS AN OFFSHOOT OF THE MAIN VEIN. ("50 YARDS TO THE NORTH OF IT.")

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1987 Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources
Updater 01-MAR-1987 Myers, Lesley L. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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