Location: | Smyth County, Virginia, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 36.85175, -81.5815 |
dep_id: | 10067263 |
mrds_id: | VA01752 |
Commodity type: | nonmetallic |
Major mineral: | Barium-Barite |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Past Producer |
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: | Northeast-Southwest Trending Thrust Faults., Mine On The Western Flank Of The Marion Dome, 800 Feet East, Southeast Of Hungry Mother Creek Fault. |
tectonic: | Virginia Valley And Ridge |
yfp_ba: | > |
Year first produced: | 1875 |
ylp_ba: | < |
yr_lst_prd: | 1906 |
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., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 53
- Deposit:: FRENCH, B.E., 1967, THE GEOLOGY OF THE MARION DOME, V.P.I. MASTERS THESIS (UNPUBLISHED).
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