Location: | Grayson County, Virginia, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 36.74925, -81.10925 |
dep_id: | 10080168 |
mrds_id: | W031260 |
Commodity type: | nonmetallic |
Trace mineral: | Barium-Barite |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | No production occurred |
Development status: | Occurrence |
ore: | Barite |
orebody_fm: | IRREGULAR |
Reporter: | Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A. |
hrock_unit: | Residual Clay;Cranberry Gneiss |
hrock_type: | Clay, Mud,Gneiss |
arock_unit: | Cranberry Gneiss Of Elk Park Plutonic Group |
arock_type: | Gneiss |
Structure: | Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, E-W Trending Stone Mountain Fault Family Lies To The North |
tectonic: | Orogen; On The Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets. |
dy_ba: | < |
disc_yr: | 1938 |
References: |
- 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.
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