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Jarmans Run Prospect

Occurrence in Page county in Virginia, United States with commodities Manganese, Iron
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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 10080687
MRDS ID W032025
Record type Site
Current site name Jarmans Run Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.38222, 38.72171 (WGS84)
Elevation 287
Relative position 1.3 KM (0.8MI) 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

  • 0.42 KM (0.26 MI) EAST OF THE BRIDGE OVER JEREMYS RUN ON STATE ROAD 611, 1.3 KM (0.8 MI) BY ROAD SOUTH OF ITS INTERSECTION WITH STATE ROAD 661, AT THE BASE OF THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE RIDGE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.38222, 38.72171
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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, Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE ROCKS IN THIS AREA HAVE BEEN CONSIDERABLY FAULTED AND BRECCIATED.

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

  • IN 1982, 6 PITS, TWO OF WHICH MAY BE CAVED TUNNELS, WERE EVIDENT.

Comments on development

  • DEPOSIT WAS TOO SMALL AND THE ORE TOO SILICEOUS TO BE REGARDED AS AN ECONOMICAL ORE BODY.

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. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 17, 166 P.

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT CONSISTED OF SANDSTONE AND QUARTZITE BRECCIA THAT HAD BEEN CEMENTED BY MANGANESE AND IRON OXIDES.

Reporter information

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

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