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White Rock No. 4 Mine

Past Producer in Smyth county in Virginia, United States with commodities Iron, 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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105429
MRDS ID VA01743
Record type Site
Current site name White Rock No. 4 Mine
Alternate or previous names White Rock Furnace Banks

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.31065, 36.82897 (WGS84)
Elevation 792
Relative position 5800 FT. 272 DEGREES FROM JCT. SR 16 AND 614 IN CEDAR SPRINGS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Smyth(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cedar Springs(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)

Federal lands

Jefferson National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

George Washington and Jefferson National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Smyth

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH SIDE OF WHITE ROCK CREEK, IN WHITE ROCK VALLEY, SOUTH FLANK OF WHITE ROCK MTN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Psilomelane Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.31065, 36.82897
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • MANGANESE OCCURS AS AMORPHOUS NODULES AND MASSES, LIMONITE AS NODULES, BOTH WITHIN A YELLOW RESIDUAL CLAY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Year of last production 1875

Mining district

District name Pulaski-Wythe

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1944, THE AREA CONSISTED OF SEVERAL SMALL PITS AND TRENCHES. WAS NOT ABLE TO LOCATE IN 1988.

Comments on development

  • IN THE LATE 1800'S THE WORKINGS WERE BY LOBDELL CAR WHEEL COMPANY (WILMINGTON, DELAWARE). THE ORE WAS HAULED TO WHITE ROCK FURNACE (TO THE EAST OF THE MINE) WHERE SUPERIOR GRADE CAST IRON WAS MADE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STOSE, G.W., MISER, H.D., KATZ, F.S., AND HEWETT, D.F., MANGANESE DEPOSTIES OF THE WEST FOOT OF THE BLUE RIDGE, VIRGINIA: VGS BULLETIN 17, P. 148.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, RALPH L., 1944, GEOLOGY AND MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF THE GLADE MTN. DISTRICT: VGS BULLETIN 61, P. 76-78.

  • Deposit

    GOOCH, E.O., 1954, IRON IN VIRGINIA: VDG MINERAL RESOURCES CIRCULAR 1, P.9.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: LATE 1800'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1988 Wilkes, Gerald P. (Sweet, Palmer C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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