| Lat / long: | 36.63508, -81.05398 |
| Primary: | Barium-Barite |
| Tertiary: | Calcium |
| Ore: | Barite |
| Gangue: | Chlorite, Feldspar, Muscovite, Quartz |
| Orebody form: | IRREGULAR, LENSES |
| Other material: | Calcite |
| Discovery year: | 1929 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | None |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| Host rock: | Cranberry Gneiss |
| Host type: | Gneiss |
| Associated rock: | Cranberry Gneiss |
| Associated type: | Gneiss |
| Structure: | Ne-Sw Trending Fries Overthrust Fault To North And Gossan Lead Overthrust To The South (Stose & Stose, 1957)., Local Shear/Fracture Zone In Mylonite Gneiss |
| Tectonic: | Orogen, Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrusts Sheets (Rankin, Et Al, 1972) |
| Alteration processes: | Biotite Altered To Chlorite, Barite Replaced The Gneiss Forming A Zone 2 Ft Wide. |
| MRDS | W031257 |
| DEP | 10080165 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 53, 85P.}{Deposit:: STOSE & STOSE, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 72, 233P.}{Deposit:: RANKIN, ESPENSHADE AND NEWMAN, 1972, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE WEST PART OF THE WINSTON SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND TENNESSEE, USGS MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A.} |
| Reporter | Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A. |