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Overall Mine

Past Producer in Warren county in Virginia, United States with commodity 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 10080712
MRDS ID W032056
Record type Site
Current site name Overall Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.3475, 38.80587 (WGS84)
Elevation 189
Relative position AT OVERALL, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF OVERALL RUN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bentonville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Front Royal(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 Warren

Comments on the location information

  • 100 M (328 FT) EAST OF THE U.S. ROUTE 340 BRIDGE OVER OVERALL RUN UNDER A POWERLINE AND JUST ABOVE A SHARP CURVE IN A DIRT ROAD WHICH GOES DOWN TO THE RIVER.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Chert Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Rockdale Run Formation
    Rock description Rockdale Run Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.3475, 38.80587
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium
Type of structure Local
Structure description Thrust Fault To The East

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

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

  • IN 1982 ONE OPEN TUNNEL WAS VISIBLE, NO DUMPS WERE PRESENT.

Comments on development

  • WASHING PLANT WAS LOCATED ON OVERALL RUN. THIS MINE MAY BE THE BIG IKE MINE, ITS LOCATION IS DESCRIBED AS BEING IN THE SAME AREA. ONLY ONE MINE WAS LOCATED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRILL, P., 1972, VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS : ROCKS AND MINERALS MAGAZINE, VOL. 47, NO. 6, P. 369-371.

  • Deposit

    STOSE, G.W., MISER, H.D., KATZ, F.J., AND HEWETT, D.F., 1919, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE WEST FOOT OF THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA: VA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 17, 166 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NOT MUCH IS KNOWN OF THIS OPERATION. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1982 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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