Mine detail: Buzzard Hill Prospect

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

36.60258, -81.21788

Resource(N)

Tertiary:	Barium-Barite, Quartz
Ore:	Barite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1957

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Stoal Gneiss (Stose & Stose, 1957),Also Called Cranberry Gneiss Of Elk Park Phitonic Group (Rankin, Et Al, 1972)
Associated type:	Gneiss
Structure:	Ne Trending Fries Thrust Fault Is Located Approximately 2.5 Miles To The Se
Tectonic:	Stone Mountain Blade Of Blue Ridge Thrust Sheet

References

MRDS	W055394
DEP	10082551
Reference	{Deposit:: STOSE, A.J. AND STOSE, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES 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, U.S.G.S. MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A.}
Reporter	Lovett, James A. (Sweet Palmer C.)