| Locality type: | Prospect |
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| Species: | Gold |
| Formula: | Au |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Gold data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Gill's Mountain Prospect, Virgilina Mining District, Halifax County, Virginia, USA |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 344150 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:344150:3 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | c83fa9f5-99a6-4655-87b8-f653372c4b9e |
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| 1.6km (1.0 miles) | ⓘPoole and Harris Prospect (Pool Prospect), Virgilina Mining District, Halifax County, Virginia, USA |
| 4.1km (2.6 miles) | ⓘRed Bank Mine (Goldbank Mine), Virgilina Mining District, Halifax County, Virginia, USA |
| 4.4km (2.7 miles) | ⓘLuce and Howard Mine (Tallyhill Mine; Howard Mine), Virgilina Mining District, Halifax County, Virginia, USA |
| 14.0km (8.7 miles) | ⓘOld Durgy Mine, Person County, North Carolina, USA |
| 15.4km (9.6 miles) | ⓘDurgy Mine (Yancey Mine; Person Consolidated Mine), Person County, North Carolina, USA |
| 17.9km (11.2 miles) | ⓘDryburg Prospect, Virgilina Mining District, Halifax County, Virginia, USA |
| 23.0km (14.3 miles) | ⓘDuke Mine (Tingen Mine), Person County, North Carolina, USA |
| 25.4km (15.8 miles) | ⓘTungsten Queen Mine and plant (Hamme Mine; Haile Mines; Sneed-Walker), Tungsten, Hamme Tungsten Mining District, Vance County, North Carolina, USA |
| 25.9km (16.1 miles) | ⓘEdison Ridge Occurrence, Charlotte County, Virginia, USA |
| 50.3km (31.3 miles) | ⓘKentuck Prospect, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA |
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 | | Journal (issue) | | 1982 No. 4 GOLD OCCURRENCES IN VIRGINIA, AN UPDATE Palmer C. Sweet and David Trimble 0 Gold was f i r...r s t discovered i n Virginia i n 1806 a t the Whitehall mine i n Spotsylvania m y . Several lode mines...near the f a l l s of the Jams River in Amherst County as well as several placer mines were opened in...around 1825 (Sweet, 1971). In the early 1800's gold mining i n V i r ginia consisted of extraction from... The f i r s t gold mine campany incorporated i n Virginia was the V i r qinia Mining Campany of New |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA DIVISION OI MINERAT RESOURCES PUBTICATION 45 VIRGINIA GOID-RESOURCE DATA Polmer C. Sweet...Sweet ond Dqvid Trimble CO'N'NONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTAAENT OF CONSERVATION AND ECONO'vlIC DIVISION... VIRGINA 1943 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAT RESOURCES PUBTICATION 45 VIRGINIA GOLD-RESOURCE DATA Polmer...Melville mine near l,Jilderness, 0range County. (photograph from "Gold Seekers Turn Again to Virginiai,bV...volume 39,.|934). VIRGINIA DIVISION OF RESOURCES PUBLICAIION 'YIINERAI VIRGINIA GOID.RESOURCE DATA |
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