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Gold Hill Prospect

Occurrence in Grayson county in Virginia, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10082558
MRDS ID W055401
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Hill Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.26093, 36.60369 (WGS84)
Elevation 805
Relative position 300 FT W OF GOLD HILL CHURCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grayson(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mouth of Wilson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wytheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winston-Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper New(hydrologic unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Grayson

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1966)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Cranberry Gneiss Of Elk Plutonic Group
    Rock description Cranberry Gneiss Of Elk Plutonic Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.26093, 36.60369
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1903

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 4.57M

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT PIT 40 FT IN DIAMETER. IN 1985, PROSPECT WAS FILLED AND GRADED LEVEL. SOME QUARTZ FLOAT WITH IRON-OXIDE STAINING WAS PRESENT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COX, E.R., 1985, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION

  • Deposit

    SWEET, P.C. AND LOVETT, J.A., 1985, VIRGINIA MINERALS, VOL.31, NO.4, P.41-52.

  • Deposit

    RANKIN, D.W. AND OTHER, 1972, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE WEST HALF OF THE WINSTON SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1987 Sweet, Palmer C. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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