| Location: | Buckingham County, Virginia, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 37.38562, -78.5764 |
| dep_id: | 10069812 |
| mrds_id: | W007515 |
| Commodity type: | nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Kyanite |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Metamorphic |
| Production size: | No production occurred |
| Development status: | Occurrence |
| ore: | Kyanite |
| gangue: | Muscovite, Quartz |
| orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR |
| conc_proc: | Metamorphism Of Argillaceous Sandstone |
| Reporter: | Espenshade, Gilbert H., Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.) |
| hrock_unit: | Chopawamsic Formation |
| hrock_type: | Mafic Intrusive Rock,Schist |
| Structure: | Ne-Sw Trend, Whispering Creek Anticline, Recumbent Isoclinal Anticline Folded Into Minor Anticlines And Synclines That Plunge 15-20 Deg Ne |
| tectonic: | Piedmont |
| References: |
- Deposit:: ESPENSHADE, G. H., AND POTTER, D. B., 1960, KYANITE, SILLIMANITE, AND ANDALUSITE DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 336., 121 P.
- Deposit:: JONAS, A.I. AND WATKINS, J.H., 1932, KYANITE IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOL. SURV. BULL. 38, 52 P.
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