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Mt. Vernon Mine

Past Producer in Rockingham county in Virginia, United States with commodities Iron, Manganese
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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. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080684
MRDS ID W032022
Record type Site
Current site name Mt. Vernon Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.76779, 38.26672 (WGS84)
Elevation 450
Relative position 4.6 KM (2.9 MI) EAST OF GROTTOES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Rockingham(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grottoes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Charlottesville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlottesville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Shenandoah(hydrologic unit)

Potomac(hydrologic accounting unit)

Potomac(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Rockingham

Comments on the location information

  • 70 M (230 FT) EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF STATE ROADS 663 AND 708, TURN NORTH ON DIRT ROAD FOR APPROXIMATELY 1 KM (0.6 MI) TO A NORTHEAST TRENDING DIRT ROAD, FOLLOW ROAD FOR 0.16 KM (0.1 MI) TO MINE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • IRON ORE CLASSIFIED AS MOUNTAIN BROWN ORE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Antietam Formation
    Rock description Antietam Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.76779, 38.26672
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend, Massanutten Synclinorium

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR POCKETS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF A LARGE OPEN CUT AND SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS WHEN VISITED IN 1981.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GATHRIGHT, T.M., II, HENIKA, W.S., AND SULLIVAN, J.L., III, 1978, GEOLOGY OF THE GROTTOES QUADRANGLE, VIRGINIA: VDMR PUB 10.

  • Deposit

    HARDER, E.C., 1909, THE IRON ORES OF THE APPALACHIAN REGION IN VIRGIA: USGS BULL 380, PP. 215-254.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME IRON ORE AND MANGANESE STAINS ON SANDSTONE ARE SCATTERED THROUGH-OUT THE DEPOSIT. DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF ANGULAR FRAGMENTS OF VARIOUS FORMS AND SIZES SCATTERED THROUGH BROWN CLAY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1981 Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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