Commodities
PrimaryBarium-Barite
Commodity typeN
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Orebody formIRREGULAR
Geology
Host rockClay, Mud,Gneiss · Residual Clay
Associated rockGneiss · Cranberry Gneiss Of The Elk Park Plutonic Group
StructureE-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 settingOn The Same Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets (Rankin, Et El, 1972).
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Discovery year1915
Identification
Deposit ID10082555
MRDS IDW055398
Alternate namesMine Hole Field
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates36.74175, -81.13898
References
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.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.