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Lester Mcalexander Mine

Past Producer in Floyd county in Virginia, United States with commodities Gold, Lead
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079829
MRDS ID W030568
Record type Site
Current site name Lester Mcalexander Mine
Alternate or previous names Luster Mcalexander Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.40451, 36.99007 (WGS84)
Elevation 671
Relative position 4.5 MI (7.2 KM) NE OF ALUM RIDGE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Floyd(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Alum Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Galax(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

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

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper New(hydrologic unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Floyd

Comments on the location information

  • JUST OFF WEST SIDE OF STATE ROAD 617 APPROX. 0.75 MI (1.21 KM) BY ROAD NORTH OF ITS INTERSECTION WITH STATE HIGHWAY 8.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GALENA REPORTED FROM PROSPECT, BUT NOT VERIFIED BY ANY INVESTIGATOR .

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Little River Gneiss;Alluvium
    Rock description Little River Gneiss;Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.40451, 36.99007
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Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • GALENA REPORTED TO OCCUR IN QUARTZ VEINS IN AMPHIBOLE-RICH ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1880

Mining district

District name Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1975 THERE WERE SCATTERED PIECES OF WHITE QUARTZ ON HILLSIDE AND IN STREAM.

Comments on development

  • SWEET (1971) STATES THAT BEFORE 1882 GOLD-BEARING STREAM ALLUVIUM WAS FOUND; GOLD GRAINS RANGED FROM 5 TO 80 MG IN WGT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SWEET, P.C. AND BELL, S.C., 1980, METALLIC MINERALIZATION IN THE BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE OF VIRGINIA, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO VIRGINIA GEOLOGY - IV: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 27, P. 39-52.

  • Deposit

    SWEET, P.C., 1971, GOLD MINES AND PROSPECTS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA MINERALS, V. 17, P. 26-33.

  • Deposit

    DIETRICH, R.V., 1959, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF FLOYD COUNTY OF THE BLUE RIDGE UPLAND, SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION SERIES, BULLETIN NO. 134, 160 P.

  • Deposit

    SWEET, P.C., 1980, GOLD IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, PUBLICATION 19, 77 P.

  • Deposit

    1880 DIREXPL

  • Deposit

    1972 RECON VA. DIV. MIN. RES., PROSPECT LOCATED

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GALENA IS SAID TO HAVE OCCURRED IN QUARTZ VEINS .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Meintzer (D.C. Levan), Robert E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1987 Sweet, Palmer C. U.S. Geological Survey

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