New Jersey Zinc Company Historical Collection (Virginia)

The New Jersey Zinc Company Historical Collection contains details of mining operations at the Austinville-Ivanhoe underground lead-zinc mines located in Wythe County in southwestern Virginia from 1902 to 1981. This site also operated under the name Bertha Mineral Company. The records pertain mainly to the historic Austinville-Ivanhoe underground lead-zinc mines located in Wythe County. The site produced zinc and lead from underground mines in the historic Austinville-Ivanhoe mineral district located in Wythe County. During this nearly 80-year span of continuous mine operations near Austinville, the company also conducted base metals exploration in other regions of Virginia, including the Timberville lead-zinc...

Categories: Data; Types: Collection, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Austinville, Austinville, Virginia, Geological Collection, Virginia, aerial images, All tags... drill logs, field notes, lead, limestone, ndc_collection, ore reserves, zinc, Fewer tags