| Lat / long: | 36.72064, -81.1437 |
| Tertiary: | Barium-Barite |
| Ore: | Barite |
| Orebody form: | UNKNOWN, LENSE. PINCH & SWELL |
| Discovery year: | 1938 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | None |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| Host rock: | Residual Clay, Surface Float |
| Host type: | Gneiss |
| Associated rock: | Comers Granite Gneiss (Stose & Stose, 1957), Mapped As Cranberry Gneiss By Rankin, Espenshade And Newman, 1972 |
| Associated type: | Gneiss |
| Structure: | E-W Trending Stone Mountain Fault Family To The N, And Ne-Sw Trending Fries Fault Family To The S, Ne-Sw Trending Shear Zone In The Granite Gneiss |
| Tectonic: | On The Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets |
| MRDS | W055397 |
| DEP | 10082554 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: STOSE AND STOSE, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETING 72, 233P.}{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 MAP I-709-A.} |
| Reporter | Lovett, James A. (Sweet Palmer C.) |