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Blevin Mine

Past Producer in Grayson county in Virginia, United States with commodities Iron, Iron, Pig Iron, Titanium, Metal
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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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080138
MRDS ID W031224
Record type Site
Current site name Blevin Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.09342, 36.58258 (WGS84)
Elevation 2360
Relative position 2.8 KM (1.7 MI) WSW OF PEACH BOTTOM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grayson(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sparta East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wytheville(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 Grayson

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APPROXIMATE, NOT FIELD CHECKED. LOCATED NEAR MOUTH OF PEACH BOTTOM CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Iron, Pig Iron Secondary
Titanium, Metal Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CHALCOPYRITE MAY OCCUR IN THIS DEPOSIT, BUT STOSE AND STOSE (1957) DO NOT MENTION IT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Ilmenite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Quartz Gangue

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) -81.09342, 36.58258
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, Gossan Lead Overthrust, Fries Fault

Ore body information

  • General form POD/LENS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ARE NOT DESCRIBED.

Comments on development

  • IRON ORE WAS MINED (1880-1890 ?) AND SMELTED AT RUTHERFORD MILL (THEN COLLINS MILL).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RANKIN, D.W., ESPENSHADE, G.H., AND NEUMANN, R.B., 1972, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE WEST HALF OF THE WINSTON-SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND TENNESSEE: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A, 1 SHEET, SCALE 1:250,000.

  • 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 BULLETIN 72, 233 P.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1972 GEOLMAP D.W. RANKIN: MISC. GEOL. INV. MAP I-709-A.

  • Deposit

    DIREXPL DEPOSIT MINED FOR IRON.

  • Production

    STOSE AND STOSE (1957, P. 188).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1980 Meintzer, Robert E. (Sweet, P. C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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