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Barton Bank

Past Producer in Smyth county in Virginia, United States with commodities Iron, Manganese
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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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067249
MRDS ID VA01735
Record type Site
Current site name Barton Bank

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.43371, 36.8048 (WGS84)
Elevation 930
Relative position 4300 FT. S60W OF MT ROGERS RANGER STATION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Smyth(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Atkins(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wytheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

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

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Holston(hydrologic unit)

French Broad-Holston(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Jefferson National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

George Washington and Jefferson National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Smyth

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 1 1/2 MI. DUE NORTH OF ROBERTS MILL. 300 FT NORTH OF APPALACHIAN TRAIL.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result HIGH GRADE MN AT THIS MINE = 31-33%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Shady/Erwin Contact
    Rock description Shady/Erwin Contact
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.43371, 36.8048
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • STOSE (1919, P.153) STATES ORE ZONE AT CONTACT OF SHADY & ERWIN. MILLER (1944) PLACES ORE ZONE AT THE TOP OF THE SHADY. FAULT SUSPECTED NEAR OR AT MINE SITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1850
Year of first production 1850
Year of last production 1875

Mining district

District name Pulaski-Wythe

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Forest Service

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 152.4M
    Overall width 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO PITS, ONE IS 140' LONG, 60' WIDE, 20' HIGHWALL; TWO IS 25' BY 4' DEEP. AREA WAS RECLAIMED BY FOREST SERVICE IN THE 1970'S. A SMALL PROSPECT PIT (UNRECLAIMED) IS LOCATED 500 FT EAST OF MINE.

Comments on development

  • ACTIVE DURING CIVIL WAR WITH SPORATIC PROSPECTING SINCE. LAST WAS IN 1942

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MILLER, RALPH L., 1944, GEOLOGY AND MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE GLADE MTN DISTRICT: VGS BULLETIN 61, P. 95-97

  • Deposit

    STOSE, G.W., MISER, H.D., KATZ, F.J., AND HEWETT, D.F., 1919, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE WEST FOOT OF THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA: VGS BULLETIN 17, P. 153-154.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: MID 1800'S
Deposit BRN IRON ORE IN LUMPS 18 TO 24" IN DIAMETER. MOST SILICIOUS & CLAYEY. FERRUGINDUS CHERT & REPLACED FINE-GRAINED SS AND SH.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1988 Wilkes, Gerald P. (Sweet, Palmer C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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