| Lat / long: | 36.7523, -81.11953 |
| Primary: | Barium-Barite |
| Ore: | Barite |
| Orebody form: | IRREGULAR |
| Discovery year: | 1938 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | None |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| Host rock: | Clay Residuum;Cranberry Gneiss |
| Host type: | Clay, Mud,Gneiss |
| Associated rock: | Cranberry Gneiss Of Elk Park Plutonic Group |
| Associated type: | Gneiss |
| Structure: | Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium; E-W Trending Stone Mountain Fault Family, E-W Trending Normal Fault (Stose & Stose, 1957). |
| Tectonic: | Orogen; Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheet |
| MRDS | W031263 |
| DEP | 10080170 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 53, 85 P.}{Deposit:: STOSE AND STOSE, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 72, 233 P.}{Deposit:: RANKIN, ESPENSHADE AND NEWMAN, 1972, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE WEST HALF OF THE WINSTON SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE, U.S.G.S. MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A.}{Deposit:: DIREXPL ? - PROSPECTED SIT} |
| Reporter | Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A. |