Commodities
PrimaryIron
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeS
WorkingsUnknown
Orebody formLENSES AND BANDED AND INTERBANDED IRON FORMATION
Ore controlChemical Precipitation, Fracture Controlled In Submarine Rifting Environment.
Materials
Ore mineralsHematite, Magnetite
Geology
Host rockQuartzite,Mica Schist · Mt Athos Member, Alligator Back Formation, Lynchburg Group
StructureSmith River Allocthon
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1800
Last production1883
Discovery year1875
Identification
Deposit ID10106397
MRDS IDW055354
Alternate namesDivestone Ridge Hematite Mines
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates37.53228, -78.9103
References
FURCRON, A.S., 1935, JAMES RIVER IRON AND MARBLE BELT, VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 39, 124P. (PL.13, P.93-94).ESPENSHADE, G.H., 1954, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE JAMES RIVER-ROANOKE RIVER MANGANESE DISTRICT, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1008, 155P. (PL.2, P.140)FRAZER, PERSIFOR, JR., 1883, THE IRON ORES OF THE MIDDLE JAMES RIVER, VA: AMER. INSTITUTE MIN. ENG. TRANS., VOL. 11, P.212.BENTON, E.R., 1886, NOTES ON THE SAMPLES OF IRON ORE COLLECTED IN VIRGINIA: UNITED STATES TENTH CENSUS, VOL. 15, P.267-268.GOOCH, E.O., 1954, IRON IN VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES CIRCULAR NO. 1, P.15.