 | | Journal (issue) | | THE PIEDMONT OF VIRGINIA James L. Poole INTRODUCTION The Piedmont province of Virginia is bordered on...sedimentary and minor igneous rocks. In this province mineral wealth has been sought since the earliest colonial...province of Virginia. , k (1) The mineralized district in Prince William, Spotsylvania, Louisa, and Buckingham...planes, and are most common in the northern part of Virginia. Also, several small copper, lead, or zinc prospects...discussed in this paper. PRINCE WILLIAM, SPOTSYLVANIA, LOUISA, AND BUCKINGHAM COUNTIES In the Piedmont province |  | | Report (issue) | | SULFIDES OF VIRGINIA FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK J. E. Gair, Editor U. S. Geological Survey Reston, Virginia 22092...Caledonian Stratabound Sulphides. Massive Sulfides of Virginia Field Trip Contents Page Introduction by J.E....the Piedmont of Virginia by Louis Pavlides ............. STOP 1, 8 STOP 1A. Mineral district Chopawamsic...Creek by J.E. Gair .............. 24 Ores of the Mineral district by J.R. Craig, J.W. Miller, L.J. Cox,...Open pit, east end of Betty Baker mine by J.E. Gair Drill core, Mineral district by J.E. Gair ....... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blackshurg, Virginia 24061, USA ABSTRACT...has homogenized most sulphide minerals including pyrite and sphalerite, so that any original compositional...compositional zoning is no longer seen. The presence of chalcopyrite has apparently promoted an increasein grain...sulphide mineral re-equilibration often precluded the determination of the original ore mineral paragenesis...metamorphism ranges widely depending upon the type of mineral, the temperature, the amount of stress, and the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Darry, N. H. 0 3 0 4 1 (PART 16 SPOTSYLVANIA...SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY Bordered on the N by the Rappahan nock and Rapidan Rivers. T h e N edge may be submerged...chief mineral interest i s the large number of gold operations r u n n i n g across the county from N...origi nated are to the S and also V2 * ° % W. Quaker Gold M. Small. O n a small summit between Brock R d ...(village). Gold panning on small r u n crossing Jackson's Trail, iy mi. S o f Brockroad. Old gold mine on Greene |  | | Journal (issue) | | and landforms, provides the basic framework for mineral resource studies and hence some of the essential...illustrate eastern United States geology, and hence Virginia, was done by William Maclure in 1809. The map...regional maps were compiled to depict coal, iron, and gold resources in addition to showing distribution of...may be useful in solving difficult VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES problems or avoiding unnecessary...inactive, and abandoned quarries and mines, potential mineral resources, natural hazards, and some areas for |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | seriescompositionalvariations in the Cofer Deposit, Mineral District, Virginia J. Wtllnv MIllr,n Department of Geology...Geological Sciences Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Abstract...stratiform massive sulfide deposits of the Mineral District of Virginia. These minerals exhibit wide compositional...of arsenopyrite -'- gudmundite, sphaleriteand chalcopyrite. Introduction The tetrahedrite-tennantite seriesminerals...galena,sphalerite,chalcopyrite, pyrite and other sulfosalts. Members of the fahlerz mineral series, ranging |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. Gahnite...Stratiform Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Mineral District, Virginia, U.S.A. D. J. Sandhaus 1 and J. R. Craig...Ferroan-gahnite, (Zn,Fe)Al~O4, is a common accessory mineral found in association with the metamorphosed volcanogenic...volcanogenic massive sulfide ore bodies of the Mineral District, Virginia. Gahnite is present throughout the mineralized...mineralized zones that contain pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and sulfosalts. Although constituting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OF THE No. 2 SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS Central Virginia Volcanic-PlutonicBelt as a Host for MassiveSulfide...GeologicalSurvey,Reston, Virginia 22092 Abstract Strata-boundmassivesulfidedepositsof the central Virginia Piedmontoccurin...Piedmontoccurin a volcanicplutonit belt composedof Lower Cambrian(?)metamorphosed volcanicrocksand locallyof...pre-Upper Ordovician,low potassiumgranitoid rocks.The belt, interpretedas an ancient islandarc, beginsabout50...extendssome175 km southwestward.The volcanicrockswithin the belt are locatedalong the flanksof the QuanticoColumbia |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology of the Ore Knob mine____________ Ore Knob mineral deposit_______________ General features.____________________...Pyrrhotite __-_--____-______. Pyrite. . ____-___-.___-_-___-. Chalcopyrite- _ __._______.__. Sphalerite__...-___---___--___-_-_-__--__-_.-_____________ Eustis mine, Quebec. ___________________________ Moulton Hill...eastern Maine._________ Milan mine, New Hampshire_____________________ Orange County copper district, Vermont___________...Vermont___________ Sulphur Mine, Virginia._________________________ Arminius mine, Virginia_________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | a similar trend in galenas from Kings Mountain belt ores is further evidence for such a source. Sulfur...Inner Piedmont rocks. PMS and the Kings Moun- tain belt have isotope ratios suggesting a mixed source with...Sulfide deposits in the Piedmont 129 9. Mineral district, Virginia 133 10. Description of the ore bodies...sulfur isotope studies 145 Virginia gold-pyrite belt 170 Carolina slate belt polymetallic stratabound...Carolina slate belt 177 Lincolnton-McCormick district, Georgia and South Carolina Other slate belt deposits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Survey, 954 National Center, Reston, Virginia 20192, USA U.S. Geological Survey, 973 Denver Federal...Denver, Colorado 80225, USA c Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA Accepted 1 June 2004 ...eastern United States. The salts, which are present on mine wastes, tailings piles, and outcrops, include minerals...deposits in the Vermont copper belt, the Mineral district of central Virginia, the Copper Basin (Ducktown)...sites). Geochemical modeling of surface waters, mine-waste leachates, and salt leachates using PHREEQC |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia By RICHARD S. M I T C H E L L Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville...Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 and A R T H U R S. K A T Z # 2 North Church Street West Chester, Pennsylvania...INTRODUCTION Although the old Sulphur mine north of Mineral, Virginia, has been a popular collecting site...prehensive tabulation of minerals which occur in this pyrite deposit has ever been published. Thornton and Burns...first systematic description of jthe minerals at the mine, but their paper, in mimeographed form, had very |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Division of Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M...tended to list the best known and most significant mineral occurrences in the state. In line with a project...in 1976, the list is intended to assist amateur mineral collectors as well as professional mineralogists |  | | Report (issue) | | (1951); see the annotated bibliography, sulfur and pyrite general reference 1. 1 deposits or districts...The index map shows the locations of sulfur and pyrite deposits in the United States and Alaska, and also...EXPLANATION OF ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX MAF 1. Pyrite and marcasite deposits, some containing other recoverable...metalliferous deposits (mostly copper, zinc, lead, iron, gold, and molybdenum) that contain pyrites. 4. Coal...have produ,:ed pyrites. A considerable number of pyrite mines and coal mines that produced pyrites prior |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | metamorphism of some massive sulfide deposits in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee* ARTHUR R. KINKEL...samples have been determined on five massive Vein mineral ages of about 1100 m.y. indicate sulfide deposits...bodies are essentially concordant / Virginia - northern Virginia to rocks of the Piedmont, with foliation... 6_ . South . z ,” 0 z 2Arminius 3 London-Virginia Carolina 4 Gassan . Georgia Lead 50re Knob...metamorphism. ORE DxP0s1~s S’ulphur Mine, Virginia The ore at Sulphur Mine consists of large lenticular concordant |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality index...intended to list the best known and most significant mineral occurrences in the State. In line with a project...in 1976, the list is intended to assist amateur mineral collectors as well as professional mineralogists...eventual goal of this project is to develop a mineral locality index for each state followed by a world-wide...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals |  | | Report (issue) | | the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, ~4 24061, USA ~Department...~Department of Geology and Mineral Resources Engineering, University of Trondheim-Norwegian Institute of Technology...metamorphism have significantly modified the ore-mineral grain sizes and textures, but do not seem to have...effectively influenced the number or variety of mineral species present. Introduction Stratabound, and...significant sources of iron, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver and sulfur. In Scandinavia, representatives |  | | Journal (issue) | | No. 1 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF VIRGINIA IN 1974' ADVANCE SUMMARY Total value of mineral production in...in Virginia in 1974 was $1,058.2 million, an increase of $512.8 million or 94 percent above that of 1973...twelfth consecutive year that mineral values have increased. Of the total mineral value approximately 81 percent...of bituminous coal, the Commonwealth's leading mineral commodity in terms of value, increased 1 percent...127 percent in value. Deep mine production decreased 3 percent and surface mine production increased 9 percent |  | | Journal (issue) | | DISTRICT, VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet The Virgilina district (Figure 1) was a source of in Virginia from the...1) was produced from the Virgilina district in Virginia. Silver, which is reported to occur in four mines...Hill copper mine and gold and silver from the Red Bank (Goldbank) gold mine in Halifax County (Sweet, 1976...approximately 1,065 ounces in gold was produced from the Red Bank mine (Sweet, 1971, p. 31). The district...copper, and gold are primary ore minerals, whereas part of the chalcocite, bornite, and chalcopyrite and all |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903. A county road...road map of Washington County is available from the Information Office, Virginia Department of Highways,... 1221 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219 or the Residency Shop in Ablingdon. Permission should...Martha Washington Inn. Head east. 0.4 Washington County Courthouse on left. 0.64 0.1 House on left. Behind... r VIRGINIA Index map for road log. QUADRANGLE - --- 0 1 2 VIRGINIA DIVISION O F MINERAL RESOURCES |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | decreasingly radiogenic valuesfrom the Mineral district,Virginia,to the StoneHill deposit,Alabama,whic...-old)granitic plutons. The mineralizedveinsof the Virginia gold pyrite belt havegalenaswith a wide spreadof radiogeniclead...the grainof the enclosing one eachfrom the Mineral, Virginia, Hamme tung- Small bodiesof this type can...district, Virginia; g, Hamme tungstendistrict, •orth Carolina; S, Cid district, •orth Carolina; 4, Gold Nil]...SouthCarolina•6, KingsCreek barite mine, South Carolina; ?, Cameron mine, South Carolina; 8, Castle'sprospect |  | | Report (issue) | | d*/oPtcare rctun thic publistio to thc Virginia Geological Sunot whcn you havc ro further uc for...COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA APR Z STATE COMMTSSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Bulletin 43 Ztnc arrd Lead Region of Southwestern Virginia With e Section on thc Occurrencce of Zinc and....t4 No'lJ c3 UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1935 13st COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMTSSION ON CONSERVATION...CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin 43 Zinc |  | Seal, Robert R., Hammarstrom, Jane M., Johnson, Adam N., Piatak, Nadine M., Wandless, Gregory A. (2008) Environmental geochemistry of a Kuroko-type massive sulfide deposit at the abandoned Valzinco mine, Virginia, USA. Applied Geochemistry, 23 (2) 320-342 doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.10.001 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sulfide deposit at the abandoned Valzinco mine, Virginia, USA Robert R. Seal II *, Jane M. Hammarstrom...Reston, VA 20192, USA Available online 7 October 2007 Abstract The abandoned Valzinco mine, which worked...deposit in the Virginia Au–pyrite belt, contributed significant metal-laden acid-mine drainage to the... The ores were dominated by pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite, which represented significant...leaching studies of flotation tailings – the dominant mine waste at the site – indicated that they were acid |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gem & Mineral Association PRESENTS yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals...PROSPECTOR VISIT OUR MINE-KEEP WHAT YOU FIND DOOR PRIZES HOURLY DEALERS GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL DISPLAYS...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite |
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