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Hubbard Mine

Past Producer in Russell county in Virginia, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, 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 10025715
MRDS ID K001644
Record type Site
Current site name Hubbard Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.97734, 36.98868 (WGS84)
Elevation 584
Relative position 3 KM (1.9 MI) SOUTH OF HONAKER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russell(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Elk Garden(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wytheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

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

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clinch, Tennessee, Virginia(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Russell

Comments on the location information

  • 100 M (328 FT) WEST OF CLINCH RIVER. 0.8 KM (0.5 MI) SOUTH ON STATE ROAD 651 FROM ITS INTERSECTION WITH STATE ROAD 653; 75 M (246 FT) WEST OF 651. IT IS ABOUT 30.5 M (100 FT) ABOVE RIVER LEVEL, AND THE WORKINGS EXTEND WESTWARD INTO A LOW MEANDER SPUR THAT POINTS SOUTHWARD.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Iron Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LIMONITE OCCURS AS CRUSTS UP TO ONE INCH THICK ON FRAGMENTS OF BARITE AT THE NORTHEASTERN END OF THE PRINCIPAL OPEN CUT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Limonite Ore
Chert Gangue
Fluorite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Clay, Mud
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Clay Residuum;Beekmantown Formation
    Rock description Clay Residuum;Beekmantown Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.97734, 36.98868
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend
Type of structure Local
Structure description Copper Ridge Syncline, Honaker Fault, Copper Creek Fault.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 55 DEG E
    Dip 30 DEG SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veins And Fracture Fillings , Clay Residuum

Comments on the geologic information

  • MOST OF THE BEDROCK IS FINE-GRAINED LIMESTONE AND DOLOMITE WITH A FEW BEDS OF COARSELY CRYSTALLINE LIMESTONE. THE ROCKS STRIKE N70DEGE AND DIP FROM 20DEG TO 30DEGSE, AND ARE INTERSECTED BY JOINTS DIPPING STEEPLY TO THE NORTHWEST.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1906
Year of first production 1906
Production years 1906

Mining district

District name Russell-Tazewell Counties Barite District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Clinch Valley Barytes Co.

Comments on the production information

  • ONE OF LARGEST PRODUCERS IN RUSSELL COUNTY IT IS PROBABLE THAT PRODUCTION OCCURRED IN OTHER YEARS BESIDES 1906, BUT NO INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THIS LOCALITY CONTAINS SMALL RESERVES OF BARITE AS CONSIDERABLE BARITE WAS SEEN ON THE DUMPS, AND MANY VEINS APPEAR ON THE FACE OF THE CUT, BUT IT IS PROBABLE THAT THE LOCALITY HAS BEEN COMMERCIALLY EXHAUSTED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 12.2M
    Overall depth 12.2M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE MINE CONSISTS OF AN OPEN CUT ABOUT 61 M (200 FT) LONG, 30.5 M (100 FT) WIDE, AND FROM 3 TO 15 M (10 TO 50 FT) DEEP. ALONG THE NORTHWEST WALL IS AN INCLINED SHAFT ABOUT 12.2 M (40 FT) DEEP. IN ADDITION TO THE PRINCIPAL WORKINGS THERE ARE SEVERAL SHALLOW TRENCHES ABOUT 152 M (500 FT) TO THE SOUTHWEST.

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS OPERATED BY THE CLINCH VALLEY BARYTES COMPANY AND PROBABLY WAS OPENED BEFORE 1906. IN ORDER TO FACILITATE TRANSPORTATION, A STANDARD-GAGE RAILROAD TRACK WAS LAID FROM THE NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY AT HONAKER TO THE COMPANY'S MILL ON CLINCH RIVER, AND AN ADDITIONAL TRAMWAY WAS CONSTRUCTED TO THE MINE. IN 1906 THE MILL HAD A DAILY OUTPUT OF 16 TONS. THIS MINE WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST PRODUCERS IN RUSSELL COUNTY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LUTTRELL, G.W., 1966, BASE-AND PRECIOUS-METAL AND RELATED ORE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES, MINERAL RESOURCES REPT. 6, 164 P.

  • Deposit

    EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 53, 85 P.

  • Deposit

    WOODWARD, H P, 1938, OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 49, 91 P.

  • Deposit

    ? DIREXPL CLINCH VALLEY BARYTES COMPANY- DUG OPEN CUTS, MINED

  • Production

    EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, VA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 53.

  • Reserve-Resource

    EDMUNDSON (1938)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BARITE OCCURS AS IRREGULAR FRAGMENTS IN RESIDUAL CLAY AND AS VEINS AND REPLACEMENT MASSES WITH A MAXIMUM WIDTH OF TWO FEET (0.6 M). SOME OF THESE BODIES PARALLEL THE BEDDING; WITH OTHERS FILLING OPEN FRACTURES AND HAVING RANDOM ORIENTATION. MUCH OF THE BARITE IS WHITE AND COARSELY CRYSTALLINE, BUT NEAR THE NORTHEASTERN END THE BARITE IS ENCRUSTED WITH THIN LAYERS OF LIMONITE. ALL OF THE DEEPER PARTS OF THE WORKINGS ARE IN BEDROCK, BUT A RESIDUAL SOIL LAYER, ABOUT 6.1 M (20 FT) THICK, IS EXPOSED ALONG THE SOUTHWEST WALL OF THE MAIN OPEN CUT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1973 Fagan, James M. Tennessee Valley Authority
Updater 01-OCT-1980 Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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