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Vaughn Prospect

Occurrence in Page county in Virginia, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080686
MRDS ID W032024
Record type Site
Current site name Vaughn Prospect
Alternate or previous names Vaughan Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.38028, 38.73421 (WGS84)
Elevation 332
Relative position 2.4 KM (1.5 MI) NORTHEAST OF VAUGHN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Page(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Luray(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Front Royal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlottesville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Shenandoah(hydrologic unit)

Potomac(hydrologic accounting unit)

Potomac(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Page

Comments on the location information

  • 0.9 KM (0.6 MI) EAST-NORTHEAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF STATE ROADS 611 AND 661 ON THE CREST OF A FOOTHILL RIDGE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Weverton Formation;Antietam Formation
    Rock description Weverton Formation;Antietam Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.38028, 38.73421
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend
Type of structure Local
Structure description Vaughn Fault Zone

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1919

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SMALL PITS WERE SEEN IN 1982, THEY AVERAGED 3.7 M (12 FT) IN DIAMETER AND UP TO 1 M (3 FT) IN DEPTH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STOSE, G.W., MISER, H.D., KATZ, F.J., AND HEWETT, D.F., 1919, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE WEST FOOT OF THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA: VA. DIV. MIN. RES. BULL. 17, 166 P

  • Deposit

    MORRILL, P., 1972, VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS: ROCKS AND MINERALS MAGAZINE, VOL. 47, NO. 6, P.369-371.

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE ZONE IS IN A ZONE OF FAULTING AND BRECCIATION IN WHICH THE QUARTZITE PEBBLES ARE CEMENTED TOGETHER BY FILMS AND SMALL VEINS OF MANGANESE OXIDE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1982 Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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