Mine detail: Cox Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

36.58452, -81.22121

Resource(N)

Primary:	Barium-Barite
Tertiary:	Mica, Quartz
Ore:	Barite, Muscovite
Gangue:	Mica, Quartz
Orebody form:	LENS, IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1930

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1952

Geology

Host rock:	Residual Soil;Cranberry Gneiss
Host type:	Mica Schist,Gneiss
Associated rock:	Stoal Gneiss (Stose & Stose, 1957), Cranberry Gneiss Of Elk Park Plutonic Group (Rankin Et Al, 1972)
Associated type:	Mica Schist,Gneiss
Structure:	W-Sw/E-Ne Trending Fries (Thrust) Fault Family Lies To The South, Stose & Stose (1957) Report Mylonized Gneiss At The Prospect.
Tectonic:	On The Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets

References

MRDS	W031254
DEP	10080162
Reference	{Deposit:: EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 53, 85P.}{Deposit:: RANKIN, ESPENSHADE AND NEWMAN, 1972, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE WEST HALF OF THE WINSTON SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND TENNESSEE, USGS MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A.}{Deposit:: 1930 DIREXPL O.C. OSBORNE - DUG 2 TEST PITS}
Reporter	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A.