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Burley Prospect

Occurrence in Amherst county in Virginia, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Mineral Pigments, Phosphorus-Phosphates, REE, Thorium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089765
MRDS ID W031190
Record type Site
Current site name Burley Prospect
Alternate or previous names Lucian Burley Prospect, Marion Burley Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -79.12558, 37.62228 (WGS84)
Elevation 283
Relative position 1.1 KM (0.6 MI) WEST OF SARDIS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Amherst(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tobacco Row Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Buena Vista(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 Amherst

Comments on the location information

  • 200 M (600 FT) SW OF END OF FARM ROAD, 0.2 KM (0.1 MI) BY ROAD SOUTH FROM JUNCTION WITH STATE ROAD 715, 1.3 KM (0.8 MI) SW FROM JUNCTION WITH U.S. HWY 60. DEPOSIT EXTENDS 0.8 KM (0.5 MI) IN EITHER NE AND SW DIRECTION. PERRIERITE DEPOSIT DESCRIBED BY MITCHELL AND GEITGEY (1968) LOCATED AT UTM N 4166110., E 665710.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary
Mineral Pigments Primary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Secondary
REE Critical Secondary
Thorium Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anatase Ore
Apatite Ore
Ilmenite Ore
Rutile Ore
Florencite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Microcline Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Rhabdophane Gangue
Zircon Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Moore (1940) Reports Host Rock To Be Intensely Altered Lovingston Granite Gneiss.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Pegmatite;Nelsonite Dike;Altered Lovingston Formation
    Rock description Pegmatite;Nelsonite Dike;Altered Lovingston Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Pegmatite;Nelsonite Dike;Altered Lovingston Formation
    Rock description Pegmatite;Nelsonite Dike;Altered Lovingston Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -79.12558, 37.62228
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Length 1600M
    Width 19.8M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST ROCK REPORTED BY PEGAU (1932) AS A HYPERSTHENE GRANODIORITE, BUT NO HYPERSTHENE SEEN BY MITCHELL AND GEITGEY (1968). AREA MAPPED BY MOORE (1940) AS ALTERED LOVINGSTON GNEISS INTRUDED NEAR-BY BY "TOBACCO ROW HYPERSTHENE GRANODIORITE;" FORMER ROCK POSSIBLY EQUIVALENT TO "LAYERED GRANULITE GNEISS" AND LATTER TO "MASSIVE CHARNOCKITE" AS DESCRIBED IN GREENFIED QUADRANGLE (SEE BARTHOLEMEW, M.J., 1977, GEOLOGY OF THE GREENFIELD AND SNERANDO QUADRANGLES, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIV. OF MIN. RES., PUBLICATION 4, 43 P.). ALLANITE AND CHEVKINITE OF PREVIOUS REPORTS DETERMINED TO BE PERRIERITE BY MITCHELL AND GEITGEY (1968).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1900

Mining district

District name Roseland

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Marion Burley

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION LIMITED TO MINERALOGICAL SPECIMENS.

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE PIT ORIGINALLY DUG TO A DEPTH OF 20 M.

Comments on development

  • DEPOSIT PROSPECTED (PROBABLY AROUND TURN OF CENTURY) LARGELY FOR PRODUCTION OF PERRIERITE SPECIMENS. PEGAU (1932) FIRST DESCRIBED DEPOSIT. MOORE (1940) REPORTED NELSONITE DIKE TO BE OF POSSIBLE ECONOMIC VALUE. GEITGEY (1967) AND MITCHELL AND GEITGEY (1968) EXAMINED MINERALOGY OF RARE EARTH-BEARING MINERALS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GEITGEY, R.P., 1967, MINERALOGY OF A DEEPLY WEATHERED PERRIERITE-BEARING PEGMATITE IN AMHERST COUNTY, VIRGINIA: UNPUBLISHED MASTER'S THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

  • Deposit

    MITCHELL, R. S. AND GEITGEY, R. P., 1968, BARIAN FLORENCITE, WEINSCHENKITE, AND RHABDOPHANE FROM A PERRIERITE - BEARING PEGMATITE IN AMHERST COUNTY, VIRGINIA: SOUTHEASTERN GEOLOGY, V. 9, NO. 3, P. 143-150.

  • Deposit

    MOORE, C. H., JR., 1940, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE AMHERST QUADRANGLE, VIRGINIA: UNPUBLISHED PH. D. THESIS, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

  • Deposit

    PEGAU, A. A., 1932, PEGMATITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 33, 123 P.

  • Deposit

    1928 RECON VA. GEOL. SURV.: INSPECTED SITE

  • Deposit

    1938 GEOLMAP C. H. MOORE, JR.: MAPPED AREA

  • Deposit

    DIREXPL EXPLORATORY AND SPECIMEN PITS DUG

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PERRIERITE OCCURS AS POCKETS IN NELSONITE DIKE AND HOST ROCK.
Deposit ADDITIONAL SMALLER NELSONITE DIKES OCCUR WITHIN 3 KM TO NW AND SW AS SHOWN BY MOORE (1940) (SEE GILLESPY PROSPECT) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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