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American Cyanimid Wood Pit

Past Producer in Amherst county in Virginia, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Mineral Pigments, Phosphorus-Phosphates
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  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080110
MRDS ID W031188
Record type Site
Current site name American Cyanimid Wood Pit
Alternate or previous names S.V. Wood Tract, Thomas Wood Deposit, B.F. Camden Tract

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.07031, 37.70867 (WGS84)
Elevation 247
Relative position 1.15 KM (0.7 MI) SOUTH OF LOWESVILLE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Amherst(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Piney River(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Buena Vista(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Roanoke(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle James-Buffalo(hydrologic unit)

James(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Chesapeake(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Amherst

Comments on the location information

  • 0.15 KM (0.1 MI) NE OF STATE ROAD 621, 0.3 KM (0.2 MI) BY ROAD WNW OF JUNCTION WITH STATE ROAD 778. ADDITIONAL WORKINGS AT APPROX. UTM GRID N4174690., E670300. (B. F. CAMDEN TRACT).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary
Mineral Pigments Primary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • RUTILE OCCURS IN VERY MINOR AMOUNTS. TI PRODUCED AS TIO2 FOR USE AS PIGMENT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Apatite Ore
Ilmenite Ore
Rutile Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Andesine Gangue
Biotite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Hypersthene Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Oligoclase Gangue

Analytical data

Result 0.42 - 11.90% TIO2

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Anorthosite
    Rock unit name Roseland Anorthosite;Layered Granulite Gneiss
    Rock description Roseland Anorthosite;Layered Granulite Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Anorthosite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • ANORTHOSITE LACKS ANDESINE ANTIPERTHITIC MEGACRYSTS SEEN IN "PEGMATITIC" ZONE OF ROSELAND ANORTHOSITE AND INCLUDES CHARNOCKITIC ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1953
Year of first production 1958

Mining district

District name Roseland

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner American Cyanamid Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ARE RESTRICTED TO OPEN-PIT MINING OF SAPROLITE ORE.

Comments on development

  • MAGNETIC ANOMALY ON WOOD TRACT WAS FIRST NOTED IN 1953 BY MEANS OF AN AERIAL MAGNETOMETER SURVEY. IN 1956, SEVERAL HAND AUGER AND POWER AUGER HOLES WERE SUNK. U.S. BUREAU OF MINES BEGAN STUDY OF RESOURCES BY MEANS OF A MAGNETIC SURVEY AND AN EXPLORATORY DRILLING PROGRAM; THROUGH THIS STUDY, THE B.F. CAMDEN ANOMALY WAS DELINEATED. AMERICAN CYANAMID CO. BEGAN PROSPECTING THE WOOD TRACT IN 1958 AND BEGAN MINING THE ORE THE SAME YEAR. PROCESSING OF THE ORE WAS DELAYED UNTIL MARCH, 1959. MINING OF CAMDEN TRACT BEGAN IN 1967, MOVING OUT OF WOOD TRACT AROUND 1969. OPERATIONS CEASED IN 1971. ; ECON.COM: MILL LOCATED IN PINEY RIVER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: FISH (1962)

  • Deposit

    CRAVEN, C.E., 1959, CONCENTRATION OF SAPROLITIC ILMENITE ORES AT PINEY RIVER: UNPUBLISHED REPORT OF 1 OCT 1959, AMERICAN CYANAMID CO., PIGMENTS DIVISION, PINEY RIVER, VA.

  • Deposit

    FISH, G.E., JR., 1962, TITANIUM RESOURCES OF NELSON AND AMHERST COUNTIES, VA., (IN TWO PARTS), 1. SAPROLITE ORES: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 6094, 44 P.

  • Deposit

    HERZ, N., 1969, THE ROSELAND ALKALIC ANORTHOSITE MASSIF, VIRGINIA, IN ISACHSEN, Y.W. (ED), ORIGIN OF ANORTHOSITE AND RELATED ROCKS: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM AND SCIENCE SERVICE, MEMOIR 18, P. 357-367.

  • Deposit

    HILLHOUSE, D.N., 1960, GEOLOGY OF THE PINEY RIVER-ROSELAND TITANIUM AREA, NELSON AND AMHERST COUNTIES, VIRGINIA: UNPUBLISHED PH. D. THESIS VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.

  • Deposit

    1953 GEOPHYS AERIAL MAGNETOMETER SURVEY DETECTED ANOMALY.

  • Deposit

    1957 DIREXPL U.S. BUREAU OF MINES: CONDUCTED MAGNETOMETER SURVEY AND DRILLING PROGRAM.

  • Deposit

    1958 DIREXPL AMER. CYANAMID CO.: CONDUCTED MAGNETOMETER SURVEY AND DRILLING PROGRAM.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DATA IS FOR TREND OF ANOMALY. SAPROLITE EXTENDS TO ABOUT 30M DEEP.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1979 Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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