Mine detail: Poole Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

36.65202, -81.03509

Resource(N)

Primary:	Barium-Barite
Secondary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, Quartz
Tertiary:	Gypsum-Anhydrite
Ore:	Barite
Gangue:	Biotite, Chlorite, Epidote, Fluorite, Hornblende, Microcline
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Other material:	Gypsum, Quartz
Discovery year:	1850

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Cranberry Gneiss
Host type:	Gneiss
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium., Fries Overthrust; Local Shear Zone And/Or Fault
Tectonic:	Orogen; On The Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets
Alteration processes:	Prophlitization Of Wall Rock (Epidote And Chlorite), Saussuritization Of Calcium Plagioclase

References

MRDS	W031258
DEP	10080167
Reference	{Deposit:: EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1935, 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 GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A.}{Production:: EDMUNDSON (1938)}
Reporter	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A.