| Deposit ID | 10080036 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | W030922 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Taylors Prospect |
| Alternate or previous names | Somerset Prospect |
| Geographic coordinates: | -78.23305, 38.21672 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | 1.2 KM (0.75 MI) NW OF SOMERSET |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Orange(county)
Virginia(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Gordonsville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Charlottesville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Charlottesville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Rapidan-Upper Rappahannock(hydrologic unit)
Lower Chesapeake(hydrologic accounting unit)
Lower Chesapeake(hydrologic subregion)
Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Virginia | Orange |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Sulfur-Pyrite | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Chalcopyrite | Ore |
| Pyrite | Ore |
| Host or associated | Host | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale | ||||
| |||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone |
| Rock unit name | Bull Run Formation (Catharpin Creek Member) |
| Rock description | Bull Run Formation (Catharpin Creek Member) |
| (1) | -78.23305, 38.21672 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Ne-Sw Trend, Triassic-Jurassic Border Fault, Barboursville Basin (Outlier Of Culpeper Basin) |
| General form | IRREGULAR |
|---|
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1835 |
| District name | Barboursville Basin |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | W030922 |
ROBERTS, J.K., 1928, THE GEOLOGY OF THE VIRGINIA TRIASSIC: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 29, 205 P.
ROGERS, W.B., 1884, A REPRINT OF ANNUAL REPORTS AND OTHER PAPERS, ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE VIRGINIAS: NEW YORK, D. APPLETON AND CO., 832 P.
LEE, K.Y., 1980, TRIASSIC-JURASSIC GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CULPEPER BASIN AND THE BARBOURSVILLE BASIN: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 80-468, 9 P.
1835 DIREXPL ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP MINE
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THOUGH ROBERTS (1928) DOES NOT SO STATE, THE PROSPECT NEAR SOMERSET DISCUSSED BY HIM IS PROBABLY THE SAME AS TAYLORS MINE OF ROGERS (1884, P. 87-88). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-JUL-1980 | Meintzer, Robert E. (Sweet, P. C.) | U.S. Geological Survey |
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