Mine detail: Vaught, F., Prospect #2

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Location

Lat / long:

36.74619, -81.11648

Resource(N)

Tertiary:	Barium-Barite
Ore:	Barite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1938

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Unicoi Formation
Host type:	Diorite,Arkose
Associated rock:	Cattron Diorite
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium, Faults, High Knob Syncline; Ne-Sw Transverse Fault And E-W Trending Stone Mountain Fault Family Found To The North.
Tectonic:	Orogen; On Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets

References

MRDS	W031262
DEP	10080169
Reference	{Deposit:: EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 3, 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 HALF OF THE WINSTON SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA AND TENNESSE, USGS MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A.}
Reporter	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A.