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Piedmont Manganese Mine

Past Producer in Campbell county in Virginia, United States with commodities Manganese, Iron
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082530
MRDS ID W055373
Record type Site
Current site name Piedmont Manganese Mine
Alternate or previous names Lerner, Myers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.03947, 37.3695 (WGS84)
Elevation 198
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 10 MILES E OF LYNCHBURG, 1300 TO 1700 FT S OF ROUTE 460., Acc Locations Of 2 Workings On Topographic Sheet Given

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Campbell(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rustburg(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Roanoke(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Roanoke(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle James-Buffalo(hydrologic unit)

James(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Chesapeake(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Campbell

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH WORKINGS (REMAINS OF MILL, WASHING BASIN) 150 FT SOUTH OF SMALL NORTHERNMOST TRIBUTARY ; 2 CONNECTING FARM PONDS OF LITTLE BEAVER CREEK; MILL SITE NORTHERNMOST SHAFT AND JOSEPHINE SHAFT INDICATED ON TOPOGRAPHIC MAP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist
    Rock unit name Lynchburg Group, Alligator Back Formation, Mt Athos Member
    Rock description Lynchburg Group, Alligator Back Formation, Mt Athos Member
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.03947, 37.3695
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Se Limb Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, W Of Bowens Creek Fault With Smith River Allocthon To East.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Schistosity N 35-60 E, Dip 7' S Se To 80 Nw

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL LENSE
    Strike UNDERGROUND N 20 E
    Dip 70 NW TO VERTICAL
    Thickness 9.14M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 9.14M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 63.4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Submarine Rift Related Hydrothermal Brines

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer Not Known; Area To Immediate N Worked For Iron (Limonite, Specular Hematite Late 18th Century).
Year of first production 1890
Year of last production 1946

Mining district

District name James River-Roanoke River Mn, Fe And Ba District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Myers Chemical Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Charles Kalb, John Langford Surface Rights, Mineral Rights Not Known

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION WASHED MN ORE WAS 30,000 TONS; 5,052 TONS REPORTED FROM JOSEPHINE SHAFT AT 105-190 FT.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 91.44M
    Overall depth 63.4M
    Overall length 225.55M

Comments on the workings information

  • OLD MILL SITE 125 FT SW OF FARM POND WITH INCLINED SHAFT (CAVED, INACCESSIBLE) PIT 30 FT DEEP 50 DIAMETER STILL VISIBLE (1987) AND CONCRETE WASHING PIT 12 X 25 FT; 100 FT S SW SHAFT 70 FT DEEPT (CAVED), 270 FT FURTHER S SW: OXFORD SHAFT 220 FT DEEP (CAVED, INACCESSIBLE) 200 FT SW OF OXFORD SHAFT, JOSEPHINE SHAFT (150 FT CAVED INACCESSIBLE); 2 SHAFTS AT 125 AND 200 FT SW OF JOSEPHINE SHAFT (CAVED, INACCESSIBLE). REMAINS OF DRILLING FROM 1940'S VISIBLE AT SW END.

Comments on development

  • AREA WORKED FOR IRON IN LATE 18TH CENTURY. THE 1880'S FE WAS SMELTED AT OLD OXFORD FURNACE; MN MINED 1890-1918, FIRST BY LERNER MINING COMPANY, LATER PIEDMONT MANGANESE COMPANY, NEW YORK (1902-1914); OXFORD MINING AND MANGANESE COMPANY (1915-1918); BETHLEHEM STEEL DRILLED IN 1918; BUREAU OF MINES DRILLED 1942 AND 1943; MINES INACTIVE UNTIL 1945-1946 WHEN MYERS CHEMICAL COMPANY MINED WAD FOR MN SULFATE FOR FERTILIZER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1954, GEOLOGY MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE JAMES RIVER-ROANOKE RIVER MANGANESE DISTRICT VIRGINIA BULLETION 1008, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    HEWETT, D.F., 1916, SOME MANGANESE MINES IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 640, P.49-54.

  • Deposit

    CONLEY, J.F., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN PIEDMONT, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 59, 33P.

  • Deposit

    CONLEY, J.F., 1987, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, HARRIS VOLUME IN PRESS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MASSIVE TO KIDNEY SHAPED PYROLUSITE WITH CONCENTRIC AND BOTRYOIDAL STRUCTURE; STEEL-BLUE PSILOMELANE; ORE ZONE IS 50% CLAY WITH MN OXIDE LUMPS TO 85-90% OF ORE AND CLAY WITH QUARTZ; FOOTWALL IS LIGHT BROWN OR GREY MICACEOUS CLAY GRADING INTO MICA SCHIST. HANGING WALL QUATRZITE AND MARBLE, STRIKE N 20 E, 70 NW TO VERTICAL DIP, CONFORMABLE TO SCHISTOSITY. DUMP MATERIAL AT NORTH END SHOWED BANDED IRON FORMATION AND QUARTZ VEINS WITH LIMONITE IN QUARTZITE; ONE PROSPECT SHOWED GRAPHITIC SCHIST.
Deposit THIS IS NOW PART OF OXFORD FURNACE ACRES SUBDIVISION AND SOME RECLAMATION HAS BEEN MADE. NOTE ON ORE PREPARATION (FROM HEWITT 1916, P.54): THE MANGANESE ORE WAS DELIVERED FROM BINS TO A JAW CRUSHER AND THEN TO A 22 FT DOUBLE LOG WASHER. COARSER ORE WAS SIZED INTO 3 FRACTIONS. THE 2 FINER FRACTIONS WERE TREATED IN JIGS THEN PROCESSED IN REVOLVING SCREENS A HARDING MILL, AND A DRYER. THE COARSE FRACTION WAS REGROUND BETWEEN ROLLS AND ADDED TO THE JIG FEED. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV; 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-87 AS Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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