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Wilkerson Tract Mine

Past Producer in Carroll county in Virginia, United States with commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron, Pig Iron, Iron, Arsenic
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Production statistics
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079995
MRDS ID W030870
Record type Site
Current site name Wilkerson Tract Mine
Alternate or previous names M. Wilkerson Tract Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.91092, 36.72619 (WGS84)
Elevation 732
Relative position 2.3 KM S 5 DEG W OF HEBRON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carroll(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Galax(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Galax(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Carroll

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION AND ELEVATION GIVEN ARE FOR THE MAJOR COLLAPSED SHAFT AT THE NORTHERN END OF THE MAJOR WORKINGS. SHALLOW PITS AND TRENCHES CONTINUE APPROX 0.5 KM N35E FROM SHAFT. MAJOR WORKINGS EXTEND 0.15 KM (400 FEET) S45W DOWN TO RAILROAD ARCADE. LOCATION FIELD CHECKED MAY 1987.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Iron, Pig Iron Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PAST MINING OPERATIONS CONCENTRATED ON SUPERGENE MINERALS.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Cubanite Ore
Cuprite Ore
Galena Ore
Goethite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Low Grade Regional Metamorphism

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 91
USGS model code 24b
Deposit model name Massive sulfide, Besshi (Japanese deposits)
Mark3 model number 30

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Lynchburg Group, Ashe Formation
    Rock description Lynchburg Group, Ashe Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.91092, 36.72619
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, Fries Thrust, Three Phases Of Regional Deformation.
Type of structure Local
Structure description N20e, 50se Schistosity

Ore body information

  • General form POD/LENS
    Strike N. 25 DEG. E.
    Dip SE
    Depth to top 6.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lenticular Troughs

Comments on the geologic information

  • CURREY: THIS MINE WORKED THE WESTERN BRANCH OF A SPLIT IN THE MAIN SULFIDE ZONE, WITH THE J. LINEBERRY MINE WORKING THE EASTERN BRANCH.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1861
Year of first production 1857

Mining district

District name Chestnut Creek Segment/Gossan Lead District/Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province.

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Yarnell Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Allied Chemical Corp. (Iron Ridge Property).

Production statistics

  • Year 1859
    Period 1857-1859
    Material ORE CU
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^12% Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Copper Copper 12wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • ORE PREDOMINANTLY COVELLITE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 79.3M

Comments on the workings information

  • 1859: CURREY REPORTS 61.0 M OF TUNNELS AND 18.3 M. OF SHAFTS, WITH THREE AIR SHAFTS. 1987: WORKINGS CONSIST OF COLLAPSED SHAFT AT 2400 FT., THEN A TRENCH GOING TO SW. TRENCH IS GENERALLY 35 FT WIDE AND 24 FT DEEP, ALTHOUGH IT WIDENS TO THE SW. TRENCH STRIKE CURVES: IT BENDS FROM S30W AT THE PORTAL TO S60W AT ITS END NEAR THE RAILROAD GRADE. SEVERAL COLLAPSED SHAFTS OCCUR ALONG THE BOTTOM OF THE TRENCH. NE OF MAIN SHAFT ARE SHALLOW PITS AND TRENCHES TRENDING N35E FOR APPOROXIMATELY 0.5 KM.

Comments on development

  • MINE OPERATED BY YARNELL MINING CO. FROM 1857 TO 1859.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CURREY, R.O., 1859, A GEOLOGICAL VISIT TO THE VIRGINIA COPPER REGION: KNOXVILLE, TENN., BECKETT, HAWS AND CO.; REPRINTED IN PART UNDER COPPER AND IRON REGION OF THE FLOYD-CARROLL-GRAYSON PLATEAU OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN VIRGINIA, ETC.: THE VIRGINIAS, 1880, V. 1, P. 62-64, 69-71, 74-77, 80-81, 95.

  • Deposit

    STOSE, A.J., AND STOSE, G.W., 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 72, 233 P.

  • Deposit

    WRIGHT, R.J., AND RAMAN, N.D., 1948, THE GOSSAN LEAD, CARROLL COUNTY, VIRGINIA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT, 21 P.

  • Deposit

    CONLEY, JAMES F., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA PIEDMONT: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 59, 33 P.

  • Deposit

    1857 DIREXPL YARNELL MINING CO.: OPENED MINE

  • Deposit

    1911 RECON W.H. WEED: BULL. 455.

  • Deposit

    1935 RECON C.S. ROSS: PROF. PAPER 179.

  • Deposit

    1939 GEOLMAP VA. GEOL. SURV.: BULL. 72.

  • Deposit

    1948 RECON R.J. WRIGHT & N.D. RAMAN: OPEN-FILE REPORT.

  • Production

    CURREY (1859)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: PRE-CIVIL WAR
Deposit PROPERTY ENCOMPASSED 182 HA (450 ACRES) ACCORDING TO CURREY (1859). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1980 Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources
Updater 01-AUG-1987 Myers, Lesley L. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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