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Cloyd Prospect

Occurrence in Montgomery county in Virginia, United States with commodity Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080207
MRDS ID W031308
Record type Site
Current site name Cloyd Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.49979, 37.20007 (WGS84)
Relative position EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Montgomery(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blacksburg(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Radford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bluefield(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 Montgomery

Comments on the location information

  • ACCORDING TO WATSON (1905), DEPOSIT IS LOCATED 8 MI (13 KM) SW OF BLACKSBURG ON THE NEW RIVER.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 228
USGS model code 32b
Deposit model name Mississippi Valley, Appalachian Zn
Mark3 model number 42

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.49979, 37.20007
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend, Pulaski Fault, Blacksburg Synform, Klippe

Comments on the geologic information

  • FORMATIONS NOTED ABOVE COULD BE POSSIBLE HOST ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1905

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Cloyd

Comments on development

  • WATSON (1905) DOES NOT DELINEATE THE EXTENT OF DEVELOPMENT. ; ECON.COM: CURRIER (1935) STATES THAT, "OCCURRENCES OF LEAD AND ZINC IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY CONSTITUTE MEAGER SHOWINGS AND DO NOT YET WARRANT SERIOUS CONSIDERATION."

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CURRIER, L.W., 1935, ZINC AND LEAD REGION OF SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 43, 122 P.

  • Deposit

    WATSON, T.L., 1905, LEAD AND ZINC DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1, 156 P.

  • Deposit

    WATSON, T.L., 1907, MINERAL RESOURCES OF VIRGINIA: LYNCHBURG, VA., J.P. BELL CO., 618 P.

  • Deposit

    DIREXPL SITE PROSPECTED

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WATSON (1905, 1907) AND CURRIER (1935) ONLY MENTION THE EXISTENCE OF THIS PROSPECT. THE PROSPECT MAY BE THE SAME AS THE PEPPERS FERRY MINE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

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