Mine detail: Rhudy Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

36.74925, -81.10925

Resource(N)

Tertiary:	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 Of Elk Park Plutonic Group
Associated 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.

References

MRDS	W031260
DEP	10080168
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.}
Reporter	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A.