Mine detail: Moore Prospect #1

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Location

Lat / long:

36.63508, -81.05398

Resource(N)

Primary:	Barium-Barite
Tertiary:	Calcium
Ore:	Barite
Gangue:	Chlorite, Feldspar, Muscovite, Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR, LENSES
Other material:	Calcite
Discovery year:	1929

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Cranberry Gneiss
Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Cranberry Gneiss
Associated type:	Gneiss
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trending Fries Overthrust Fault To North And Gossan Lead Overthrust To The South (Stose & Stose, 1957)., Local Shear/Fracture Zone In Mylonite Gneiss
Tectonic:	Orogen, Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrusts Sheets (Rankin, Et Al, 1972)
Alteration processes:	Biotite Altered To Chlorite, Barite Replaced The Gneiss Forming A Zone 2 Ft Wide.

References

MRDS	W031257
DEP	10080165
Reference	{Deposit:: EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 53, 85P.}{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 PART OF THE WINSTON SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND TENNESSEE, USGS MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A.}
Reporter	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A.