Mine detail: Porter Prospect #2

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

36.7523, -81.11814

Resource(N)

Primary:	Barium-Barite
Ore:	Barite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1938

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Residual Clay;Cranberry Gneiss
Host type:	Clay, Mud,Gneiss
Associated rock:	Cranberry Gneiss
Associated type:	Gneiss
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium; E-W Trending Stone Mountain Fault Family, E-W Trending Normal Fault (Stose & Stose, 1957)
Tectonic:	Orogen; Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheet

References

MRDS	W031259
DEP	10080166
Reference	{Deposit:: EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 53, 85P.}{Deposit:: STOSE AND 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.}
Reporter	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A.