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Wedlight Mine 1945

Past Producer in Smyth county in Virginia, United States with commodities Manganese, Iron
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  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 10067274
MRDS ID VA01765
Record type Site
Current site name Wedlight Mine 1945
Alternate or previous names Langley Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.32065, 36.84257 (WGS84)
Elevation 975
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 10,040 FT. N 60 DEGREES W OF JCT SR 614 AND 749 IN DOWNTOWN CEDAR SPRINGS., Est Central Point To Grouping Of Mines Extending 1 Mile, Either Side Of Utm Point Along Strike.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Smyth(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cedar Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wytheville(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)

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

  • ALONG SOUTH FLANK AND EAST NOSE OF GLADE MTN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Manganite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.32065, 36.84257
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description On South Flank Of East. Plunging Anticline.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR/TABULAR
    Strike N 60 DEGREES E
    Dip 20 DEGREES SE
    Plunge 20 DEGREES E
    Plunge direction LN 60 DEGREES E
    Thickness 9.14M
    Depth to top 4.57M
    Depth to bottom 13.72M

Comments on the geologic information

  • SEE GLADE MTN MINE NOTES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1910
Year of last production 1957

Mining district

District name Pulaski-Smyth District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner C. J. Langley (New York)
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Forest Service

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 4.57M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN THE 1940'S, THE RAW MATERIAL WAS PUSHED DOWNHILL AND CONSOLIDATED BY PANS. THIS MATERIAL WAS TRUCKED TO WASHER AND THE ORE WAS MOVED TO RR AT RURAL RETREAT BY 8 TO 10 TON DUMP TRUCKS. ALL AREAS, WITH EXCEPTION OF WINN PROSPECT, RECLAIMED. 15 FT. HIGHWALL OF WEA. RESID. EXPOSED IN 1987 AT SEVERAL MINE SITES.

Comments on development

  • GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED MINING FOR MN BEGAN IN THE 1940'S BY WILSON WEDLIGHT, C.J. LANGLEY, AND OTHERS AND CONTINUED THROUGH THE 1950'S. THE WINN PROSPECT (1910) AND GLADE MTN MINE (1910) WERE REWORKED AND AT LEAST SEVEN NEW SURFACE PITS WERE DEVELOPED ALONG STRIKE BETWEEN THESE TWO OLD MINES. ANOTHER PIT WAS DEVELOPED ALONG THE OLD CCC ROAD, EAST OF THE GLADE MTN MINE. THE WASHER INITIALLY USED WAS THE OLD POND ALONG KILLINGER CREEK THAT WAS THE OLD WASHER FOR THE GLADE MTN MINE. A NEW WASHER AND PREP PLANT WERE CONSTRUCTED AT THE NEW PIT ALONG THE CCC ROAD. WASHED ORE WAS TRUCKED BY 8 TO 10 TON DUMPTRUCKS TO RR AT RURAL RETREAT. THESE STRUCTURES WERE TORN DOWN AND ALL THE MINING SITES RECLAIMED IN THE 1970'S BY THE US FOREST SERVICE. RAW ORE STOCKPILED AT THE WASHER WAS USED AS ROADSTONE ON FIRE TRAILS THROUGHOUT GLADE MTN. THE WINN PROSPECT IS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AND WAS NOT RECLAIMED BY THE FOREST SERVICE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STOSE, G.W., MISER, H.D., KATZ, F.J., HEWETT, D.F., 1919, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE WEST FOOT OF THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA: VGS BULLETIN 17, PP. 140-142, 148-149.

  • Deposit

    MR. ERNEST TERRY, RURAL RETREAT, DEC 87, PERS. COMM.

  • Deposit

    MR. E. NICHOLES, RURAL RETREAT, DEC 87, PERS. COMM.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MN & FE ARE REPLACEMENT MINERALS WITHIN THE ERWIN, ESPECIALLY WELL CONC. IN THE COARSER-GRAINED SS. A BRECCIATED ZONE, 100 FT. WIDE, IS IN THE ERWIN AND MINERALIZATION OCCURS ALONG FRACTURES AND VUGS WITHIN THIS SUBUNIT. SHADY DOLOMITE MINED AT TWO LOCATIONS (WASHER & WINN PROSP.) PRODUCED CONCENTRATION OF NODULES FOUND IN POCKETS.
Deposit SEE ALSO: WINN PROSPECT AND GLADE MTN MINE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV; 5 PERS COMM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-87 Wilkes, Gerald P. (Sweet, Palmer C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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