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Historic gold producers in Spotsylvania County (USGS)

USGS records 32 historic gold producers in Spotsylvania County: 32 past producers and 0 listed as producers or plants. For 14 of them USGS gives an output size (14 small). Production years are recorded for 8 sites, from 1835 to 1884. The most common deposit type is low-sulfide Au-quartz vein (12 sites).

Show the 32 sites

Site	USGS status	Output	Commodities	Years
United States Mine	Past producer	small	Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Tungsten, Vanadium, Sulfur-Pyrite	from 1835
Whitehall Mine	Past producer	small	Gold, Tellurium, Lead	1848 to 1884
Gardiner Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	from 1854
Mott Mine	Past producer	small	Gold, Sulfur-Pyrite	from 1865
Starrs Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	from 1867
Goodwyn Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	from 1880
Higgins Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	from 1907
New Grindstone Mine	Past producer	small	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Sulfur-Pyrite	from 1910
Bell Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Grindstone Mine	Past producer	small	Gold, Silver, Sulfur-Pyrite, Lead, Zinc	n/a
Knapp Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Marsden Prospect	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Ramsey Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Smith Mine	Past producer	small	Gold	n/a
Beazley Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Bell Prospect	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Brinton Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Gardiner Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Goodwyn Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Grindstone Mine	Past producer	n/a	Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc	n/a
Knapp Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Marsden Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Marva Mine	Past producer	n/a	Lead, Gold, Zinc, Silver	n/a
Mitchell Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Mott Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Pocahontas Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Quaker Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Rawlings Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Roney Mine	Past producer	n/a	Boron-Borates, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	n/a
Smith Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
United States Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a
Whitehall Mine	Past producer	n/a	Gold	n/a

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. Sites already matched to an MSHA record are shown in the MSHA tables.

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