Commodities
PrimaryManganese
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeS
WorkingsUnknown
Orebody formLENSE
Geology
Host rockQuartzite · Mt Athos Member Of Alligator Back Formation Of Lynchburg Group
StructureQuartzite Crushed With Tight Folds And Lineations Plunging Steeply To Sw; Drag Folds Plunge Sw
AlterationHanging Wall Quartzite Strongly Leached And Porous; Clay Beneath Quartzite Contains Blocks Of Rotted Quartzite From Slump Initiated By Solution Of Calcareous Rock.
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1937
Last production1941
Discovery year1937
Identification
Deposit ID10082523
MRDS IDW055366
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates37.44673, -78.97946
References
ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1954, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE JAMES RIVER-ROANOKE RIVER MANGANESE DISTRICT, VIRGINIA BULL. 1008, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.CONLEY, J.F., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN PIEDMONT, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 59, 33P. (GENERAL GEOLOGY)FURCRON, A.S., 1935, JAMES RIVER IRON AND MARBLE BELT, VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL 39, 124P. (P.63-64).