Mine detail: Boy Scout

Previously called 'Moss-RichardsonJonesDryden'

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Location

Lat / long:

36.25841, -77.87999

Resource(M)

Primary:	Molybdenum
Secondary:	Copper
Tertiary:	Silver
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Pyrite
Gangue:	Fluorite, Quartz, Sericite
Discovery year:	1935

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Granite
Associated type:	Schist
Structure:	Adjacent To The Hollister Fault Zone, Locally-Deformed North-Plunging Pluton In Tectonically Deformed Schist. West-Dipping, N20e And N60w Quartz Veins Are Mineralized.
Alteration processes:	Muscovite, Chlorite

References

MRDS	D000592
DEP	10008424
Reference	{Deposit:: ROBERTSON, A., ET AL., 1947, BOY SCOUT-JONES AND MOSS-RICHARDSON MOLYBDENUM DEPOSITS, HALIFAX CO., NORTH CAROLINA: U.S.B.M. REPORT OF INV. 4156}{Deposit:: ROBERTSON, A.F., ET AL, 1947, R.I. 4156}{Deposit:: 1939 GEOCHEM AMERICAN ZINC CO.}{Deposit:: 1942 DIREXPL USBM}{Reserve-Resource:: UNPUBLISHED REPORT WRIGHT AND ESPENSHADE USGS}{Reserve-Resource:: WRIGHT AND ESPENSHADE, USBM}
Reporter	King, Robert U., Klein, T.L.