Mine detail: Long Mountain Mines

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Location

Lat / long:

35.84177, -82.85348

Resource(B)

Primary:	Barium-Barite
Tertiary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Silver
Ore:	Barite, Fluorite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	LENSES, PINCH AND SWELL

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Snowbird Group, Feldspathic Quartzite And Slate
Host type:	Quartzite
Associated rock:	Max Patch Granite, Coarse Or Porphyritic Granite Gneiss;Cranberry Gneiss; Granite Gneiss With Lenses Of Hornblende Gneiss, Mica Gneiss, And Mica Gneiss
Associated type:	Gneiss,Granite
Structure:	Deposit Is A Few Hundred Feet From The Brushy Mountain Thrust Fault.

References

MRDS	K002606
DEP	10026130
Reference	{Deposit:: ORIEL, S.S., 1950, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE HOT SPRINGS WINDOW, MADISON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: NORTH CAROLINA DIV. MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 60, P. 7}{Deposit:: 1950 OTHER ORIEL, S.S., N.C. DIV. MIN. RES. BULL}
Reporter	Hale, Robin C., Klein, T.L.