Mine detail: Mclane, John R. Farm Property Occurrence

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Location

Lat / long:

36.72064, -81.1437

Resource(N)

Tertiary:	Barium-Barite
Ore:	Barite
Orebody form:	UNKNOWN, LENSE. PINCH & SWELL
Discovery year:	1938

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Residual Clay, Surface Float
Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Comers Granite Gneiss (Stose & Stose, 1957), Mapped As Cranberry Gneiss By Rankin, Espenshade And Newman, 1972
Associated type:	Gneiss
Structure:	E-W Trending Stone Mountain Fault Family To The N, And Ne-Sw Trending Fries Fault Family To The S, Ne-Sw Trending Shear Zone In The Granite Gneiss
Tectonic:	On The Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets

References

MRDS	W055397
DEP	10082554
Reference	{Deposit:: STOSE AND STOSE, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETING 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 MAP I-709-A.}
Reporter	Lovett, James A. (Sweet Palmer C.)