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Seible Mine

Past Producer in Warren 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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080696
MRDS ID W032037
Record type Site
Current site name Seible Mine
Alternate or previous names Happy Creek Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.14082, 38.92698 (WGS84)
Elevation 213
Relative position 4.5 KM (2.8 MI) EAST OF FRONT ROYAL AND AT HAPPY CREEK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Warren(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Front Royal(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Front Royal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charlottesville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Shenandoah(hydrologic unit)

Potomac(hydrologic accounting unit)

Potomac(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Warren

Comments on the location information

  • 0.3 KM (0.19 MI) EAST OF ST. PAULS CHURCH ON STATE ROAD 656, 0.56 KM (0.35 MI) SOUTH BY ROAD FROM ITS EASTERN INTERSECTION WITH STATE ROAD 647.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Manganite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore
Chert Gangue

Analytical data

Result MOST OF THE ORE CONTAINED 20% MN, 21% FE, 12-15% SIO2. MAXIMUM MN WAS 38%.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Clay, Mud
    Rock unit name Clay Residuum;Shady Dolomite
    Rock description Clay Residuum;Shady Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.14082, 38.92698
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trend
Type of structure Local
Structure description Happy Creek Fault, Stone Bridge Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Clay Residuum

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1907

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Seible Iron Mines, Inc.

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE DEVELOPED BY TWO LARGE OPEN CUTS, EACH OVER 152 M (500 FT) LONG, 61 M (200 FT) WIDE AND 23 M (75 FT) DEEP AT THEIR MAXIMUM, AS WELL AS NUMEROUS PITS UP TO 4.6 M (15 FT) IN DIAMETER AND 1 M (3 FT) DEEP. SEVERAL POSSIBLE CAVED TUNNELS WERE ALSO SEEN IN 1982.

Comments on development

  • MANGANESE WAS DISCOVERED A NUMBER OF YEARS BEFORE 1907. THE MAJOR PERIOD OF MINING OCCURRED BETWEEN THE YEARS OF 1907 AND 1917. THE ORE WAS MILLED AND WASHED TO SEPARATE THE NODULES FROM THE CLAY. THE MILL WAS LOCATED NEAR HAPPY CREEK STATION ABOUT 0.8 KM (0.5 MI) FROM THE MINE AND WAS CONNECTED TO THE MINE BY A NARROW-GAUGE TRAMWAY. THE RICHEST ZONES OF ORE YIELDED ONE TON OF NODULES FOR EVERY 8 CUBIC YARDS (6 CU M) OF MATERIAL. IF THE PROPORTION OF LIMONITE WAS TOO GREAT A IRON AND MANGANESE MIXTURE WAS SHIPPED AND THE YIELD WAS ONE TON OF ORE PER 3 CUBIC YARDS OF CLAY. AT ITS PEAK THE MILL PRODUCED 300 TONS (272 MT) OF WASHED ORE PER MONTH.

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

    RADER, E.K., AND BIGGS, T.H., 1975, GEOLOGY OF THE FRONT ROYAL QUADRANGLE, VIRGINIA: VA. DIV. MIN. RES., REPT. OF INVESTIGATIONS 40, 91 P.

  • Deposit

    HEWETT, D.F., STOSE, G.W., KATZ, F.J. AND MISER, H.D., 1918, POSSIBILITIES FOR MANGANESE ORE ON CERTAIN UNDEVELOPED TRACTS IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VIRGINIA: USGS BULL 660-J, P. 271-296.

  • Deposit

    HEWETT, D.F., 1916, SOME MANGANESE MINES IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND: USGS BULL. 640, P. 37-71.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IRREGULAR MASSES OF MANGANESE ORE WERE SPORADICALLY DISTRIBUTED IN YELLOWISH-BROWN CLAY IN TWO NEARLY VERTICAL LENTICULAR ZONES WHICH RANGED FROM 1.5 TO 2.4 M (5 TO 8 FT) IN WIDTH AND TRENDED SOUTH.

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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