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Alleghany Springs Prospect

Occurrence in Montgomery county in Virginia, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Silver
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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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080206
MRDS ID W031307
Record type Site
Current site name Alleghany Springs Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -80.24978, 37.10007 (WGS84)
Relative position EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Montgomery(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 Montgomery

Comments on the location information

  • FONTAINE (1883),P. 190-191) DESCRIBED THE DEPOSIT AS BEING 2.5 MI (4.0 KM) SOUTH OF ALLEGHANY SPRINGS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Dolomite Gangue

Analytical data

Result AG: 16 OZ/TON (FONTAINE, 1883).

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 228
USGS model code 32b
Deposit model name Mississippi Valley, Appalachian Zn
Mark3 model number 42

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Rome Formation
    Rock description Rome Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -80.24978, 37.10007
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend, Fries Fault, Christiansburg Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • ACCORDING TO DIETRICH (1954), THE ONLY CARBONATES IN THE AREA ARE IN THE ROME FORMATION, AS THE SHADY FORMATION DOES NOT CROP OUT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1885

Mining district

District name Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province

Comments on development

  • DEPOSIT APPARENTLY NEVER DEVELOPED. ; ECON.COM: WATSON (1905) DID NOT CONSIDER THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEPOSITS AS WORKABLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DIETRICH, R.V., 1954, GEOLOGY OF THE PILOT MOUNTAIN AREA, VIRGINIA: BULLETIN OF THE VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION SERIES NO. 91, V. 47, NO. 4, 32 P.

  • Deposit

    FONTAINE, W.M., 1883-84, NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE FLOYD, VA., PLATEAU: THE VIRGINIAS, V. 4, P. 167, 178-180, 185-192; V. 5, P. 8-12.

  • Deposit

    1953 GEOLMAP VA. ENG. EXPT. STAT.: MAPPED AREA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE MINERALS OCCUR AS LUMPS OR PARTICLES DISPERSED THROUGHOUT ROCKS.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1880'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1980 Meintzer, Robert E. (Sweet, P. C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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