Commodities
TertiaryBarium-Barite
Commodity typeN
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Orebody formUNKNOWN, LENSE. PINCH & SWELL
Ore controlContact Of Sheared Granite Gneiss And A Porphyritic Phyolite Dike
Geology
Host rockGneiss · Residual Clay, Surface Float
Associated rockGneiss · Comers Granite Gneiss (Stose & Stose, 1957), Mapped As Cranberry Gneiss By Rankin, Espenshade And Newman, 1972
StructureE-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 settingOn The Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Discovery year1938
Identification
Deposit ID10082554
MRDS IDW055397
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates36.72064, -81.1437
References
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.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.