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Jefferson Peak Prospect

Occurrence in Patrick county in Virginia, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10093817
MRDS ID W030925
Record type Site
Current site name Jefferson Peak Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.58313, 36.65008 (WGS84)
Relative position EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Patrick(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Laurel Fork(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Galax(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winston-Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Yadkin(hydrologic unit)

Upper Pee Dee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Pee Dee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Patrick

Comments on the location information

  • FONTAINE (1884) DESCRIBED PROSPECT AS BEING 18 MI (29 KM) SW OF SUTHERLAND PROSPECT IN FLOYD CO. AND 14 MI (23 KM) FROM STUART.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Lynchburg Formation
    Rock description Lynchburg Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 6.1M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THIS SECTION OF THE LYNCHBURG FORMATION IS DELINEATED AS THE ALLIGATOR BACK FORMATION BY ESPENSHADE AND OTHERS (1975).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1883

Mining district

District name Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province

Comments on the production information

  • IT IS DOUBTFUL WHETHER THIS PROSPECT PRODUCED.

Comments on the workings information

  • FONTAINE (1884) DOES NOT DESCRIBE THE WORKINGS.

Comments on development

  • ONLY THE INITIAL REPORT BY FONTAINE (1884) IS AVAILABLE; IT IS DOUBTFUL IF FULL-SCALE DEVELOPMENT TOOK PLACE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CONLEY, J.F., 1978, GEOLOGY OF THE PIEDMONT OF VIRGINIA-INTERPRETATIONS AND PROBLEMS, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO VIRGINIA GEOLOGY-III: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 7, P. 115-149.

  • Deposit

    ESPENSHADE, G.H., RANKIN, D.W., SHAW, K.W., AND NEUMAN, R.B., 1975, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE EAST HALF OF THE WINSTON-SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA-VIRGINIA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-B, 1 SHEET, SCALE 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    FONTAINE,W.M., 1883-84, NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE FLOYD, VA., PLATEAU: THE VIRGINIAS, V. 4, P. 167, 178-180, 185-192; V. 5, P. 8-12.

  • Deposit

    1966 RECON D.W. RANKIN: RECON MAPPING (MAP I-709-B

Reporter information

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

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