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Culpeper Prospect

Occurrence in Culpeper county in Virginia, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067614
MRDS ID W000407
Record type Site
Current site name Culpeper Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -77.99665, 38.43393 (WGS84)
Elevation 137
Relative position 4.0 KM (2.5 MI) SOUTH OF CULPEPER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Culpeper(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Culpeper East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fredericksburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Washington(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rapidan-Upper Rappahannock(hydrologic unit)

Lower Chesapeake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Chesapeake(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Culpeper

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APPROXIMATE, NOT FIELD CHECKED BY VDMR. ROBERTS (1928) REPORTS LOCALITY TO BE 2-2.5 MI SOUTH OF CULPEPER, 75-100 FT WEST OF SOUTHERN R.R. TRACKS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Iron Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • HEMATITE IS PREDOMINANT ORE MINERAL.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Diabase
    Rock description Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Diabase;Border Conglomerate, Newark Group
    Rock description Diabase;Border Conglomerate, Newark Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -77.99665, 38.43393
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend, Culpeper Triassic Basin
Type of structure Local
Structure description Mt. Pony Stock

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: THE BORDER CONGLOMERATE IS PART OF THE NEWARK SERIES. THE PROSPECT IS A MINERALIZED ZONE IN THE TRAP PHASE OF THE BORDER CONG., NEAR OR AT THE METAMORPHOSED CONTACT OF THE CONG. WITH THE DIABASE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Culpeper Basin

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • "NOTHING FURTHER THAN INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN DONE AT THIS LOCALITY, AND THE MATERIAL IS OF MINERALOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE ONLY." (ROBERTS REF.)

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1920-1924 A SMALL SHALLOW PIT WAS EVIDENT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROBERTS, J.K., 1928, THE GEOLOGY OF THE VIRGINIA TRIASSIC: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 29, 205 P

  • Deposit

    1917 DIREXPL SHALLOW PROSPECT PIT SUNK

  • Deposit

    1924 GEOLMAP VA. GEOL. SURV.: MAPPED AREA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE MINERALS OCCUR IN THE MATRIX OF THE CONGLOMERATE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1972 Wright, Nancy A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1980 Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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