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Sutherland Prospect

Occurrence in Floyd county in Virginia, United States with commodities Iron, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite, Zinc, Iron, Pig Iron
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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 10080136
MRDS ID W031222
Record type Site
Current site name Sutherland Prospect
Alternate or previous names Fisher, Hylton, Nowlin Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.38396, 36.80257 (WGS84)
Elevation 991
Relative position 10.4 KM (6.5 MI) SE OF WILLIS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Floyd(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Willis(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 Floyd

Comments on the location information

  • AREA APPROXIMATELY 0.7 KM EAST OF SUMMIT OF JONES MTN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Copper Secondary
Sulfur-Pyrite Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Iron, Pig Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Limonite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Weathering

Analytical data

Result DRILL HOLE CORE ANALYSIS INDICATED A COPPER CONTENT OF LESS THAN ONE PERCENT AND A ZINC CONTENT UP TO 1.8 PERCENT.

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) -80.38396, 36.80257
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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 LENSES
    Strike N 76 DEG E
    Dip 45 DEG NW
    Width 6M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1850

Mining district

District name Southern Lead/Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province.

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner The Nassog Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner American Metals Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 15.4M
    Overall depth 18M

Comments on the workings information

  • A SHAFT 18 M (60 FT) DEEP AND A TUNNEL 15 M (50 FT) LONG WITH A WINZE AT THE END 3 M (10 FT) DEEP, AND NUMEROUS PITS WERE SUNK. A TOTAL OF 15 DRILL HOLES WERE PUT DOWN DURING PROSPECTING IN 1939 AND 1943. IN EARLY 1978, NUMEROUS FRAGMENTS OF QUARTZ AND BIOTITE SCHIST AS WELL AS PIECES OF LIMONITE GOSSAN WERE ALONG THE OLD FARM ROAD LEADING NORTH FROM STATE ROAD 605. THE AREA OF THE OLD SHAFT AND ADIT WAS VIRTUALLY INACCESSIBLE AS IT WAS COMPLETELY OVERGROWN WITH RHODODENDRONS.

Comments on development

  • THE PROPERTY WAS FIRST PROSPECTED AROUND 1850, WHEN IT WAS OWNED BY THE MEIGS COUNTY, TENNESSEE, AND VIRGINIA MINING CO. A SHAFT 18 M (60 FT) DEEP AND A TUNNEL 15 M (50 FT) LONG WERE OPENED. NO KNOWN PRODUCTION OCCURRED AND THE PROSPECT LAY IDLE UNTIL 1939 WHEN THE AMERICAN METALS CO. CONDUCTED A MAGNETOMETER SURVEY OF THE PROPERTY AND PUT DOWN ONE DRILL HOLE. IN 1940 THE NASSOG CO., UNDER MR. C.H. THOMPSON OF HOLLINS, VIRGINIA, PROSPECTED THE PROPERTY WITH NUMEROUS TEST PITS. IN 1943 THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPENED THE CAVED TUNNEL AND SANK 14 DRILL HOLES. THE DRILLING OCCURRED IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH AND THE 14 HOLES TOTALED 278 M (913 FT).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SWEET, P.C. AND BELL, S.C.; 1980, METALLIC MINERALIZATION IN THE BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, IN PREPARATION.

  • Deposit

    GROSH, W.A., 1948 INVESTIGATION OF THE SUTHERLAND COPPER PROSPECT, FLOYD COUNTY, VA.: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4357, 2 P.

  • Deposit

    CURREY, R.O., 1880, THE COPPER AND IRON REGION OF THE FLOYD-CARROLL-GRAYSON PLATEAU OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN VIRGINIA: THE VIRGINIAS. VOL. 1, P. 81.

  • Deposit

    FONTAINE, W.M., 1882, NOTES ON THE SULPHURET DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: THE VIRGINIAS, VOL. 3, P. 155:

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1963, GEOLOGY OF SOME COPPER DEPOSITS IN NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND ALABAMA: USGS BULL 1142-I, 150 P.

  • Deposit

    1939 GEOPHYS AMERICAN METALS COMPANY; MAGNETOMETER SURVEY, 1 HOLE DRILLED

  • Deposit

    1943 DIREXPL U.S.B.M.; 14 HOLES DRILLED, 15 M ADIT OPENED

  • Deposit

    DIREXPL MEIGS COUNTY, TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA MINING CO.; PROSPECTING

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AREA VIRTUALLY INACCESSIBLE, OVERGROWN BY THICK CHODODENDRONS IN 1978 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit THE COUNTRY ROCK IS A QUARTZ-BIOTITE-GARNET SCHIST AND CONTAINS A MINERALIZED ZONE 6 M (20 FT) THICK WHICH DIVERGES INTO A SERIES OF SMALL STRINGERS AT ITS EAST END. THERE IS A GOSSAN CAP UP TO 17 M (55 FT) THICK OVERLYING THE PRIMARY ORE, AS INDICATED IN ONE USBM DRILL HOLE, THE GOSSAN'S COPPER CONTENT RANGED FROM 0.14 TO 0.94 PERCENT IN THIS HOLE. THE ORE CONSISTS OF SMALL MASSIVE SULFIDE LENSES AND BANDS. ABOUT 7 M (23 FT) OF HYPOGENE SULFIDE ORE WAS CUT AT 30.5 M (100 FT) BELOW THE SURFACE BY DRILL HOLE 5 OF THE AMERICAN METAL CO.: THE SAMPLE ACROSS THIS THICKNESS AVERAGED 1.78 PERCENT ZINC AND 0.62 PERCENT COPPER. TWO USBM DRILL HOLES ALSO INTERSECTED HYPOGENE SULFIDE ORE CONTAINING ABOUT ONE-HALF OF ONE PERCENT COPPER. NO SUPERGENE COPPER ZONE WAS DISCOVERED DURING THE DRILLING.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Beaulieu, Harvey R. (Le Van, D. C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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