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Grasty Tract Mine

Past Producer in Orange county in Virginia, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067618
MRDS ID W000410
Record type Site
Current site name Grasty Tract Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -77.86164, 38.27921 (WGS84)
Elevation 125
Relative position 3.30 KM (2.05 MI) NW OF MINE RUN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Orange(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mine Run(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 Orange

Comments on the location information

  • 0.12 KM (0.08 MI) OFF SW SIDE OF STATE ROAD 692, 0.88 KM (0.55 MI) BY ROAD SE OF JUNCTION WITH STATE HWY 20.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THERE ARE THREE OR MORE QUARTZ VEINS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Chalcopyrite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Ellisville Granodiorite
    Rock description Ellisville Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Ellisville Granodiorite
    Rock description Ellisville Granodiorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -77.86164, 38.27921
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOLOGY OF DEPOSIT POORLY DESCRIBED IN LITERATURE; ELISVILLE GRANODIORITE IS EQUIVALENT TO THE LOCUST GROVE GRANIT OF LONSDALE (1927). ; GEOL.DESC: THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE GRANITE AND SCHIST PASSES THROUGH THE PROPERTY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1831
Production years 1831-1910

Mining district

District name Gold-Pyrite Belt

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Lucky Hundred Mineral And Mining Corp.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Fisher, A. E.

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL THOUSAND TONS OF ORE WORKED. AU RAN $4.13 TO $201.67 PER TON.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 427M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN ADDITION TO ABOVE 176 M OF SHAFTING SUNK FOR A TOTAL OF 15 SHAFTS. (ALL FIGURES INCLUDE WORKINGS ON DICKEY AND OLD TINDER TRACTS, 11 OF 15 SHAFTS WERE ON GRASTY TRACT. IN 1974, NUMEROUS CAVED SHAFTS AND PITS, AN OLD ROASTING STACK, AND DUMPS WERE EVIDENT.

Comments on development

  • THE VIRGINIA MINING CO., THE FIRST INCORPORATED GOLD MINING COMPANY IN VA., OPERATED HERE FROM 1831 TO 1843. THE CHANCELLORSVILLE-FREEHOLD MINING CO. OPERATED THE MINE FROM 1853 TO 1857, THE CHICAGO-VIRGINIA GOLD MINING CO. FROM 1879 TO 1881, THE AMERICAN GOLD MINING CO. FROM 1881 TO 1883, AND THE GOLD RUN MINING CO., OPERATING DATES UNSNOWN. THE PIEDMENT MINING AND METALLURGICAL CORP. BOUGHT THIS TRACT AND THE DICKEY AND OLD TINDER TRACTS IN 1907, OPERATING UNTIL 1910. AFTER WORLD WAR I, SOME LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLORATION WORK WAS DONE. AROUND 1957, THE LUCSY HUNDRED MINERAL AND MINING CORP. ATTEMPTED SOME SMALL SCALE PLACER MINING, THE LAST PROSPECTING ATTEMPT ON THIS TRACT. ; ECON.COM: ROASTING STACK ERECTED IN 1832 (STILL STANDING)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LONSDALE, J.T., 1927, VA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 30, P. 80.

  • Deposit

    WATSON, T.L., 1907, MINERAL RESOURCES OF VA., P. 555-557

  • Deposit

    LUTTRELL, G.W., 1966, VA. MIN. RES. REPORT 7, P. 57-58

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    SWEET, P.C., 1975, ROAD LOG TO SOME ABANDONED GOLD MINES OF THE GOLD-PYRITE BELT, NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA MINERALS, VOL. 21, NO. 1, P. 1-9.

  • Deposit

    1831 DIREXPL VIRGINIA MINING CO: INITIAL DEVELOPMENT, WORKED MINE UNTIL 1834, FOLLOWED BY OTHER COMPANIES (SEE BELOW)

  • Deposit

    1974 RECON VA DIV MIN RES: INSPECTED SITE.

  • Production

    LONSDALE REFERENCE. , WATSON (1907)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1972 Wright, Nancy A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1987 Sweet, Palmer C. U.S. Geological Survey

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