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Sugar Run Prospect

Occurrence in Floyd county in Virginia, United States with commodity Nickel
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080130
MRDS ID W031213
Record type Site
Current site name Sugar Run Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.19339, 37.10035 (WGS84)
Elevation 664
Relative position 5.6 KM (3.5 MI) WNW OF COPPER HILL.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Floyd(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Check(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Radford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bluefield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Roanoke(hydrologic unit)

Roanoke(hydrologic accounting unit)

Chowan-Roanoke(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Floyd

Comments on the location information

  • ON N SIDE OF SUGAR RUN ABOUT 107 M ALONG A DIRT ROAD OFF THE W SIDE OF STATE ROAD 865 ABOUT 1.53 KM (0.95 MI) BY ROAD W OF ITS INTERSECTION WITH STATE ROAD 703.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NICKEL SULFIDES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pentlandite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Little River Gneiss;Blue Ridge Complex
    Rock description Little River Gneiss;Blue Ridge Complex
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.19339, 37.10035
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Blue Ridge Anticlinorium

Comments on the geologic information

  • SULFIDE MINERALIZATION PROBABLY OCCURS IN SHEARED PHASE OF BANDED, MEDIUM-DARK GNEISS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1902

Mining district

District name Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 15M

Comments on the workings information

  • SLOPING TRENCH 6 M LONG WHICH IS APPARANT SHAFT REMAINS, AND A 15 M ADIT WHICH IS 2.4 M WIDE AND 2.0 M HIGH HEADING N 15 DEG W CUT INTO SOLID ROCK REPORTED AT SITE IN 1972. NO DUMP OR SULFIDE MINERALIZATION OR DUMP WAS SEEN THEN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SWEET, P.C. AND BELL, S.C., 1980 METALLIC MINERALIZATION IN THE BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, IN PREPARATION.

  • Deposit

    DIETRICH, R.V., 1959, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF FLOYD COUNTY OF THE BLUE RIDGE UPLAND, SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION SERIES, BULLETIN 134, 160 P.

  • Deposit

    1902 DIREXPL VIRGINIA NICKEL CORPORATION: PROSPECTED SITE

  • Deposit

    1972 RECON VA. DIV. OF MINERAL RESOURCES; SITE INSPECTED

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1902 (?)

Reporter information

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

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