Location: | Smyth County, Virginia, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 36.85507, -81.5815 |
dep_id: | 10067257 |
mrds_id: | VA01745 |
Commodity type: | nonmetallic |
Major mineral: | Barium-Barite |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | No production occurred |
Development status: | Occurrence |
ore: | Barite |
orebody_fm: | LENSE, PINCH AND SWELL, IRREGULAR |
work_type: | Surface |
ore_ctrl: | Fractures In The Dolomite |
Reporter: | Lovett, James A. (Sweet Palmer C.) |
hrock_unit: | Beekmantown Formation |
hrock_type: | Dolomite |
Structure: | Noirtheast - Southwest Trending Thrust Faults., Prospect Is On The Western Flank Of The Marion Dome, 300 Feet East Of The Hungry Mother Creek Fault. |
tectonic: | Virginia Valley And Ridge |
dy_ba: | > |
disc_yr: | 1875 |
References: |
- Deposit:: BUTTS, CHARLES, 1933, GEOLOGY MAP OF THE APPALACHIAN VALLEY OF VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 42.
- Deposit:: COOPER, B.N., 1936, STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE MARION AREA, VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 46-L.
- Deposit:: EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1967, THE GEOLOGY OF THE MARION DOME, V.P.I. MASTERS THESIS (UNPUBLISHED)
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