VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 164 DIRECTORY OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN VIRGINIA.2OOl Palmer C. Sweet COMMONWEALTH OF \'IRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DTVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES Stanley S. Johnson, State Geologist CIIARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA 2001 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINE,RAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 164 DIRECTORY OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN VIRGINIA.2OOl Palmer C. Sweet COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALSAND ENERGY DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES Stanley S. Johnson, State Geologist CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA 200r DEPARTMENT OF MINES. MINERALS AND ENERGY RICHMOND,VIRGINIA O.Gene Dishner. Director DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES C}IARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA Staaley S. Johnson, State Geologist and Division Director 804951-6350 STAIF Kay T. Hasenauer, Executive Secretary 804951-63,18 ECONOMICMINERALSANDENERGYSECTION SPATIALDATAANDEASTERNGEOLOGY PalmerC. Sweet, SectionHead,804-951-6362 IanJ. Duncan, SectionHead 804-951-6344 Rebecca S. Hope, Geologist Senior, 804-95 I -635 1 C. R. Berquist, Jr., Geologist Senior ,7 57 -221-2448 RoyS. Sitcs, GeologistSenior,804-951-6360 ElizabethV.M. Campbell,GeologistSenior,804-951-6343 Michaell. Upchurch, GeologistSenior,804-951-6363 NickH. Evans, GeologistSenior, 304-951-6345 William S. Henika, Geologist Senior, SOUTHWESTMINERALSANDGEOLOGYSECTION KarenK.Hostettler,GeologistSenior,804-951-6352 AlfredR. Taylor, SectionHead,540-676-5577 DavidB. Spears,GeologistSenior, 304-95 1-6361 James A. Lovett, Geologist Senior, 540-676-5830 WilliamW.Whitlock,GeologistSenor,540-676-5829 PUBLICATIONSANDWESTERNGEOI.OGYSECTION EugeneK. Rader,SectionHeadandEditor, 804-95 1-6358 SALESANDSIJPPORTSECTION DavidA.Hubbard,Jr.,GeologistSenior,804-951-6353 DeloresJ.Green, OfficeManager,804-951-6346 JohnD. Man, Jr., GeologistSenior, 304-951-6354 DeborahC. Farrish, StoreOperations Supervisor, 304-951-6359 VernonN.Monis,CartographicDrafterAssist.,S04-951-6356 EdwinW.Marshall, GeologistTechniciar\ 804-951-6355 GeraldP. Wilkes,GeologistSenior,S04-951-63& SALES:80,1-9516340 INFORMATION : 80l-9 5 I 43 5 4 FAX:804-9516365 FAX:80,1-951-6365 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: jmnr @geology. state.va.us FRONT COVER:Blocks of diabase dimension stone, Jet Mist Quarry of New England Stone Industries, Culpeper County (Photograph from Division of Mineral Resources files). VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 164 DIRECTORY OF THE MINERAL INDUSTRY IN VIRGINIA .2OOI. Palmer C. Sweet COMMOI{WEALTH OF VIRGTXIIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DTVISION OF MINERAL RESOI.JRCES Stanley S. Johnson, State Geologist CHARLOTTESVILLE. VIRGINIA 2001 GEOLOGIC TIME TABLE WITH RESOURCES ERA PERIOD RESOURCES* CENOZOIC QUATERNARY CLAY MATERIALS. SAND AND GRAVEL TERTIARY CLAY MATERIALS \,J TTTJ CRETACEOUS SAND AND GAVEL MESOZOIC JURASSIC TRIASSIC CLAY MATERIALS, COAL, CRUSHED STONE. DIMENSION STONE PERMIAN PENNSYLVANIAN COAL. CRUSHED STONE MISSISSIPPIAN COAL, CRUSHED STONE, GAS, GYPSUM DEVONIAN CLAY MATERIALS. CRUSHED STONE, GAS, HIGH-SILICA ROCKS PALEOZOIC SILURIAN CRUSHED STONE, GAS, HIGH- SILICA ROCKS ORDOVICIAN CEMENT, CLAY MATERIALS, CRUSHED STONE, GAS, HIGH- CALCIUM LIMESTONE, KYAN- ITE,OIL, SLATE CAMBRIAN CLAY MATERIALS, CRUSHED STONE, DIMENSION STONE, HIGH-SILICA ROCKS, IRON OX- IDE PIGMENTS. VERMICULITE 570my_ - PRECAMBRIAN CLAY MATERIALS. CRUSHED STONE. DIMENSION STONE * Resources presently produced and some produced in the past. i FOREWORD This directory contains a list of mineral production companies and individuals on record as of December 1, 2000 exclusive of coal, natural gas, and petroleum operators, and supersedes the previous directory, published in 1993. The listing includes portable plants, some captive and intermittent operations, and some Frocessors of out-of-state or imported materials. The names of producers and processors are arranged by county or city under the appropriate raw material or commodity. Operations that are located in the independent cities of Chesapeake, Harnpton, Harrisonburg, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach are listed under the city; operations in other independent cities are listed under the surrounding county. Telephone numbers are included. The locations ofthe various operations are given with respect to a nearby city or town (if possible). The directory provides the names of geologic formations from which cement materials, clay, shale and related materials, granite and related rocks, gypsum, kyanite, lime, limestone and dolostone, sandstone and quartzite, and slate are produced. An alphabetical listing of the names of companies and individuals is provided as a reference index, keyed by their number in the directorv. MINERAL PRODUCTION IN VIRGINIA . I999IIP Value Mineral Commodit), Ouantity (thousands) C1ays......... .... shorr tons..... ...967,000.........$ 3,240 Coal (bituminour)r, ($33.63) ......do... .32,254,0Cf.............1,084,702 r, - Lime...................thousand short tons........... .992...............54.2AO Natural Gas, ($2.42ll000cu.ft)r,..million cubic feer............72,189. 174,697 Petroleum (crude) ($17.23lbl.) 42-sallon 2t3t- Sand and gravel........thousand short tons.... Stone: Combined value of cement, clay (fuller's earth) feldspar, gemstones, gypsum, industrial sand and gravel, iron oxide pigments, kyanite, mineral sand (titanium and zirconium concentrates), sulfur, vermiculite Tota1.......... ................XX $1,913,886 XX Not Applicable. P Preliminary. l/ Measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production, (includes consumption by producers) - U. S. Geological Survey. Department Mines, !. _V_lrginja of Minerals and Energy 3/ U. S. Department of Energy, Average Export - Imp6rt Price CONTENTS ffi1........,. ......'.........'...........'.......................... ..'...'....'............. .'.'. '. '.........1.| lt| AMPHIBOLITE Brunswick Franklin 7 Brick and,Tile.Corporation Lawrenceville of Lawrenceville (804) 848-31s1 P. O. 45 1 Rockydale Quarries Corp. Union Hall Box Lawrencevill€,23868 Jack Mountain Quarry (540) s76-2s44 1535 Jacks Creek Road Glade Hill24A92 Orange 8 General Shale Brick Somerset Somersel Plant,, (s4o) 832-2293 ANIIYDRITE P. O: B'ox.523 (See Gypsum) Somerset 22972 BASALT AND RELATED ROCKS Prince William' CRUSHEDSTONE 9 Glen-Gery"Corporation Manassas P. O. Box'3410 (703) 368-3178 Albemarle Manassas.22l l0 2 Luck Stone Corp. Shadwell Roanoke Charlottesville Plant (804) 29s-9729 P. O. Box 278 10 Old Virginia Brick Co. Inc. Salem Charlottesville 22902 Catoctin Fm. P. O. Box 508 (s4o) 389-2357 Salem 24153 Campbell Smyth 3 Boxley Company, Inc. Lynchburg Mt. Athos Plant (804) 845-4s87 11 General Shale Brick Groseclose (s40) Route 2, Box 134 Marion Plant 783-3150 Concord 24538 Alligator Back Fm. 7164 Lee t{ighway Atkias 24311 Grayson CEMENTPLANTS 4 Cardinal Stone Co. Galax (s4o) 236-s4s7 Grayson Quarry Botetout Route 1, Box 452 (altered ultramafic Galax 24333 rock) 12 Roanoke Cement Company Haymakertown P. O. Box 27 (quarries and cement BRICKPLANTS Cloverdale 24O77 plant; manufacture portland and masonry Amherst cement) (540) 992-tsor 5 Old Mrginia Brick Co., Inc. Madison Heights P. O. Box 740 (804) 929-6411 Liberty Hall Fm. Madison Heights 24572 Effna Ls. Five Oaks Ls. Chesapeake (City of) Botetourt 13 LaFarge Calcium Aluminate, Inc.Chesapeake P. O. Box 5806 (plant grinds imported 6 General Shale Brick Webster Chesapeake 23324 clinker and also Blue Ridge Plant (s40) 977-5s09 processes imported and domestic raw P. O. Box 306 materials for Ca-Al Blue Ridge 24064 cement) VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES (757) s4s-4643 Greensville Warren 20 Brick and Tile Corporation Pleasant Shade 14 Riverton Corp Riverton of Lawrenceville (raw material used Riverton Road llll (quarries and cement P. O. Box 45 by company brick Front Royal 22630 plant; manufacture Lawrenceville 23868 plant in masonry cement) Lawrenceville) (s4o) 635-413r (804) 848-3151 EdinburgFm. Residual clay CLAY, SHALE, Ah[D RELAIED MATERIALS Orange ABSORBENT 21 General Shale Brick Somerset Somerset Plant (raw material used King and Queen P. O. Box 523 in adjacent company Somerset 22972 brick plant) 15 Bennett Mineral Co. Walkerton (s40) 832-2293 P. O. Box 28 (804) 769-3800 Walkerton 23177 Triassic shale Miocene clay & clay King William 16 Golden Cat Manquin Prince William Division of Ralston Purina Co. (804) 769-1266 931 Dunluce Road Glen-Gery Corporation Manassas King William 23086 Miocene clay 22 P. O. Box 3410 (raw material used BRICK Manassas 22110 in company brick plant) Amherst (703) 368-3178 17 Old Virginia Brick Co., Inc. Madison Heights Triassic shale & P. O. Box 740 (raw material used clay Madison Heights 24572 by company brick plant) Roanoke (804) 929-641r 23 Old Virginia Brick Co., Inc. Salem Candler Fm. P. O. Box 508 (raw material used and residual clay Salem 24153 by company brick plant) Botetourt (s4o) 389-23s7 18 General Shale Brick Webster Brallier Fm. Blue Ridge Plant (raw material used P. O. Box 306 by company brick Blue Ridge 24064 plant) Smyth (s4o) 977-s50s 24 General Shale Brick McMullin Rome Fm. Marion Plant (raw material used 7164 Lee Highway by company brick Atkins 24311 plant) Brunswick (540) 783-3rs6 19 Brick and Tile Comporation Lawrenceville Chatham Hill of Lawrenceville (raw material used Fm. P. O. Box 45 by company brick Lawrenceville 23868 plant) (804) 848-3151 Schist PUBLICATION 164 SHALE LIGH| WEIGI{T AGGREGATE Frederick Buckingham 25 Buckley-Lages, Inc. Chambersville P. O.Box3221 (540) 662-4924 34 Solite Corporation New Canton Winchester 22601 P. O. Box