| Deposit ID | 10080132 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | W031215 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Brinton Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | United States Mine |
| Geographic coordinates: | -80.25561, 37.05701 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 805 |
| Relative position | 1.4 KM (0.9 MI) NE OF TERRY'S FORK. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Floyd(county)
Virginia(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Pilot(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Virginia | Floyd |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Arsenic Critical | Primary |
| Gold | Secondary |
| Silver | Secondary |
| Copper | Secondary |
| Sulfur-Pyrite | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Copper | Ore |
| Apatite | Gangue |
| Muscovite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Zircon | Gangue |
| Model code | 273 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 36a |
| Deposit model name | Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein |
| Mark3 model number | 27 |
| Host or associated | Host | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Schist | ||||
| Rock unit name | Virginia Blue Ridge Complex | ||||
| Rock description | Virginia Blue Ridge Complex | ||||
| |||||
| (1) | -80.25561, 37.05701 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Blue Ridge Anticlinorium |
| General form | POD/LENS |
|---|---|
| Width | 4.3M |
| Depth to top | 0M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1880 |
| Year of first production | 1902 |
| District name | Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Chipman Chemical Engineering Corp. |
| Home office | Bound Brook, New Jersey |
| Year | 1919 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1903-1919 | ||||||||||||||
| Material | AS | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Estimate | ||||||||||||||
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^99.75% As203 | ||||||||||||||
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| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 155M |
| Overall depth | 66M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | W031215 |
SWEET, P.C. AND BELL, S.C., 1980, METALLIC MINERALIZATION IN THE BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE OF VIRGINIA, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO VIRGINIA GEOLOGY - IV: VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 27, P. 39-52.
HESS, F.L., 1911, THE ARSENIC DEPOSITS OF BRINTON, VIRGINIA; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 470, P. 205-211.
DIETRICH, R.V., 1959, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF FLOYD COUNTY OF THE BLUE RIDGE SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION SERIES, BULLETIN NO. 134.
FONTAINE, W.M., 1882, NOTES ON VIRGINIA GEOLOGY: THE VIRGINIAS, V. 3, NO. 7, P. 108-109.
1902 DIREXPL U.S. ARSENIC MINES COMPANY; MUCH ORE PROCESSED.
1917 DIREXPL CHIPMAN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CORPORATION OF BOUND BROOK, NEW JERSEY; DISMANTLED PLANT IN 1919.
1978 RECON VA. DIV. OF MINERAL RESOURCES; SITE INSPECTED
DIETRICH (1959)
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | ORE FOUND MAINLY IN VEINS, ONLY MINOR AMOUNTS IN COUNTRY ROCK. ARSENOPYRITE IS FINE TO MEDIUM GRAINED, IS DISSEMINATED IN QUARTZ-SERICITE SCHIST. MINERALIZATION RESULTS FROM SOLUTION INTRUSION. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-JUN-1979 | Beaulieu, Harvey R. (Le Van, D. C.) | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-DEC-1987 | Sweet, Palmer C. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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