Mine detail: Cox, Charles, Farm Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

36.57425, -81.25788

Resource(N)

Primary:	Barium-Barite
Ore:	Barite
Orebody form:	LENSES
Discovery year:	1936

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence
Last production ended:	1937

Geology

Host rock:	Cranberry Gneiss
Host type:	Gneiss,Mylonite,Augen Gneiss
Associated rock:	Shoal Gneiss (Stose & Stose, 1957), Cranberry Gneiss (Rankin, Et El., 1972)
Associated type:	Gneiss,Augen Gneiss
Structure:	W-Sw/E-Ne Trending Fries (Thrust) Fault Family, E-W Trend Of The Foliation/Schistosity
Tectonic:	On The Same Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets

References

MRDS	W031255
DEP	10080163
Reference	{Deposit:: STOSE & STOSE, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 72, 233P.}{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:: 1936 DIREXPL ? - DUG TRENCHE}
Reporter	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A.