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Rossin's Mine

Past Producer in Culpeper 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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079814
MRDS ID W030552
Record type Site
Current site name Rossin's Mine
Alternate or previous names Rossin's Mountain Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -77.71776, 38.38893 (WGS84)
Elevation 101
Relative position 1.53 KM (0.95 MI) SE OF RICHARDSVILLE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Culpeper(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Richardsville(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

  • 0.2 KM (0.1 MI) OFF SSW SIDE OF STATE ROAD 610 ABOUT 1.05 KM (0.65 MI) BY ROAD SW OF ITS INTERSECTION WITH STATE ROAD 732.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO REPORTS AS TO PRODUCTION OR MINERALIZATION

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sericite 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 Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Chopawamsic Formation
    Rock description Chopawamsic Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -77.71776, 38.38893
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne To Sw Trend

Comments on the geologic information

  • NO RECENT GEOLOGICAL WORK HAS BEEN DONE IN THIS AREA{ FORMATION WAS DESCRIBED BUT NOT NAMED BY LONSDALE (1927).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold-Pyrite Belt

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION, IF ANY, WAS SMALL.

Comments on the workings information

  • LONG 1 M-DEEP TRENCH CUT, SEVERAL LARGE QUARTZ BOULDERS, SCATTERED QUARTZ ROCKS AND LARGE PILE OF WHITE QUARTZ WITH WEATHERED GRANITE AND MINOR SCHIST REPORTED IN 1974.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    DARTER, O.H., 1957, COL. FREDERICKSBURG AND NEIGHBORHOOD IN PERSPECTIVE: NEW YORK, TWAYNE PUBLISHERS; P 294-295.

  • Deposit

    LONSDALE, J.T., 1927, GEOLOGY OF THE GOLD-PYRITE BELT OF THE NORTHEASTERN PIEDMONT, VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 30, 110 P.

  • Deposit

    1974 RECON VA. DIV. OF MINERAL RESOURCES; SITE INSPECTE

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AREA HAS BEEN LOGGED IN LAST 10 YEARS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Beaulieu, Harvey R. (Le Van, D. C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1981 Trimble, David, C. U.S. Geological Survey

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