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Stoney Man Mine

Past Producer in Madison county in Virginia, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080034
MRDS ID W030919
Record type Site
Current site name Stoney Man Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.3725, 38.59726 (WGS84)
Elevation 1213
Relative position 2.3 MI (3.7 KM) NW OF IDA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Page(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Old Rag Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Front Royal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlottesville(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)

Federal lands

Shenandoah National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Madison

Comments on the location information

  • IN SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, ON STONEY MAN NATURE TRAIL

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Cuprite Ore
Malachite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Meta-Basalt
    Rock unit name Catoctin Formation;Pedlar Formation
    Rock description Catoctin Formation;Pedlar Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Meta-Basalt
    Rock unit name Catoctin Formation;Pedlar Formation
    Rock description Catoctin Formation;Pedlar Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.3725, 38.59726
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, Ne-Sw Trend

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Joints And Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • TWO WELL-DEFINED JOINT SETS, ONE STRIKING N20E WITH STEEP SE DIP, OTHER STRIKING N60W WITH STEEP NE DIP. IN 1973, NO PRIMARY MINERALIZATION EVIDENT, MALACHITE AND MINOR AZURITE OBSERVED ON FRACTURE AND JOINT SURFACES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1850
Year of first production 1850

Mining district

District name Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province

Land status

Ownership category National Park

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Forest Service - Shenandoah National Park

Comments on the workings information

  • ORIGINAL WORKINGS CONSISTED OF AN 18-M (60-FT) DEEP SHAFT AND AN OPENCUT, 15 TO 18 M (50 TO 60 FT) LONG, 3 TO 4.6 M (10 TO 15 FT) WIDE, AND UP TO 9 M (30 FT) DEEP. IN 1973 THERE WERE SEVERAL PITS, 1.5 M (5 FT) BY 3 M (10 FT) AND 1 M (3 FT) DEEP. THE ONLY MINERALIZATION SEEN IN 1973 WAS MALACHITE AND AZURITE STAINING ON FRACTURE AND JOINT SURFACES.

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS OPENED IN THE 1850'S AND WAS WORKED AGAIN IN THE EARLY 1900'S. THE ORE WAS HAULED TO FURNACE SPRINGS FOR SMELTING. IN 1850, MINER'S LODE COPPER CO. ACQUIRED THE 5371 ACRE STONY MAN TRACT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SWEET, P.C., AND BELL, S.C., 1980, METALLIC MINERALIZATION IN THE BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE OF VIRGINIA: VA. DIV. MIN. RES. PUBLICATION 27, P. 39-52.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., 1911, COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE APPALACHIAN STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 455, 166 P.

  • Deposit

    ALLEN, R.M., JR., 1963, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF GREENE AND MADISON COUNTIES: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 78, 102 P.

  • Deposit

    ALLEN, R.M., JR., 1967, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF PAGE COUNTY: VA. DIV. MIN. RES. BULL. 81, 78 P.

  • Deposit

    WATSON, T.L., 1907, MINERAL RESOURCES OF VIRGINIA: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, J.P. BELL CO., 618 P.

  • Deposit

    PHALEN, W.C., 1906, COPPER DEPOSITS NEAR LURAY, VIRGINIA: USGS BULL. 285-B, PP. 140-145.

  • Deposit

    POLLOCK, G.F., 1960, SKYLAND, CHESAPEAKE BOOK CO., 283P.

  • Deposit

    1850 DIREXPL

  • Deposit

    1900 DIREXPL

  • Deposit

    1911 RECON W.H. WEED, LOCATED AND DESCRIBED.

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON VA. DIV. MIN. RES; LOCATED.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME OF GREENSTONE MATERIAL IN THE DUMP HAS PROBABLY BEEN CRUSHED AND USED AS ROADSTONE ON THE NEARBY TRAILS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit MINERALIZATION OCCURRED AS DISSEMINATED PARTICLES AND IRREGULAR SEGREGATIONS IN JOINTS AND FRACTURES OF THE CATOCTIN GREENSTONE. THESE OPENINGS WERE FILLED WITH WHITE QUARTZ AND ADJACENT GREENSTONE WAS EPIDOTIZED. ORE APPEARS TO BE CONFINED TO ZONES IN THE ROCK WHICH HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY EPIDOTIZED BUT IS NOT AN INVARIABLE ACCOMPANIMENT OF EPIDOTIZATION.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JUL-1987 Sweet, Palmer C. (Trimble, David C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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