| Lat / long: | 36.74175, -81.13898 |
| Primary: | Barium-Barite |
| Ore: | Barite |
| Orebody form: | IRREGULAR |
| Discovery year: | 1915 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | None |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| Host rock: | Residual Clay |
| Host type: | Clay, Mud,Gneiss |
| Associated rock: | Cranberry Gneiss Of The Elk Park Plutonic Group |
| Associated type: | Gneiss |
| Structure: | E-W Trending Stone Mountain Fault Family To The N And Sw-Ne Trending Fries Fault Family To The South, E-W Trending Normal Faults Located Less Than 1 Mile To The North (Stose And Stose, 1957). |
| Tectonic: | On The Same Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets (Rankin, Et El, 1972). |
| MRDS | W055398 |
| DEP | 10082555 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: RANKIN, ESPENSHADE, AND NEWMAN, 1972, GEOLOGY MAP OF THE WEST HALF OF THE WINSTON-SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGAIONS MAP I-709-A.}{Deposit:: STOSE AND STOSE, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES BULLITIN 72, 233P.} |
| Reporter | Lovett, James A. (Sweet Palmer C.) |