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Boyd Prospect

Occurrence in Nelson 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080117
MRDS ID W031197
Record type Site
Current site name Boyd Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.95307, 37.80227 (WGS84)
Elevation 280
Relative position 0.3 KM (0.2 MI) NE OF BRYANT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nelson(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Horseshoe Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dillwyn(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 Nelson

Comments on the location information

  • 0.1 KM (0.05 MI) SE OF STATE ROAD 659, 0.15 KM (0.1 MI) ENE OF JUNCTION WITH STATE HWY. 151, 0.2 KM (0.1 MI) NE OF JUNCTION WITH STATE ROAD 672 IN BRYANT.

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ilmenite Ore
Biotite Gangue

Analytical data

Result DIKE CONTAINS ABOUT 60% ILMENITE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.95307, 37.80227
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Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike N.59 DEG.E
    Dip NEAR VERTICAL
    Length 457M
    Width 7.6M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • "BORDER GNEISS" TERM APPLIED BY HILLHOUSE (1960); PROBABLY PART OF LAYERED GRANULITE GNEISS UNIT OF BARTHOLOMEW (1977, VA. DIV. MIN. RES., PUB. 4).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1885

Mining district

District name Roseland

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner American Cyanamid Co. (Mineral Rights), T. M. Boyd (Surface Rights).

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 18M

Comments on the workings information

  • OLD WORKINGS CONSIST OF PITS, TRENCHES, AND ONE VERTICAL SHAFT. IN 1959, THE SHAFT WAS BADLY CAVED AND FILLED WITH RUBBISH.

Comments on development

  • VIRGINIA MINING AND MANUFACTURING CO. ACQUIRED MINERAL RIGHTS IN 1889 FOR THE PURPOSE OF MINING FOR PHOSPHATE. SEVERAL PITS AND TRENCHES WERE DUG AND ONE SHAFT WAS SUNK. DESPITE LARGE AMOUNT OF DEVELOPMENT WORK, COMPANY FAILED SHORTLY. NO COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS WERE CONDUCTED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: FISH AND SWANSON, 1964.

  • Deposit

    FISH, G.E., JR., AND SWANSON, V.F., 1964, TITANIUM RESOURCES OF NELSON AND AMHERST COUNTIES, VA., (IN TWO PARTS), 2. NELSONITE: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 6429, 25 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

    WATSON, T.L. AND TABER, S., 1913, GEOLOGY OF THE TITANIUM AND APATITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 3-A, 308 P.

  • Deposit

    1889 DIREXPL VIRGINIA MINING AND MANUFACTURING CO.: SUNK SHAFT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LENGTH EXTRAPOLATED FROM PROSPECT PITS, OUTCROPS, AND FLOAT.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1880'S

Reporter information

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

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