Mine detail: Cornit, Martin, Prospect

Previously called 'Mine Hole Field'

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Location

Lat / long:

36.74175, -81.13898

Resource(N)

Primary:	Barium-Barite
Ore:	Barite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1915

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Residual Clay
Host type:	Clay, Mud,Gneiss
Associated rock:	Cranberry Gneiss Of The Elk Park Plutonic Group
Associated type:	Gneiss
Structure:	E-W Trending Stone Mountain Fault Family To The N And Sw-Ne Trending Fries Fault Family To The South, E-W Trending Normal Faults Located Less Than 1 Mile To The North (Stose And Stose, 1957).
Tectonic:	On The Same Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets (Rankin, Et El, 1972).

References

MRDS	W055398
DEP	10082555
Reference	{Deposit:: RANKIN, ESPENSHADE, AND NEWMAN, 1972, GEOLOGY MAP OF THE WEST HALF OF THE WINSTON-SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGAIONS MAP I-709-A.}{Deposit:: STOSE AND STOSE, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES BULLITIN 72, 233P.}
Reporter	Lovett, James A. (Sweet Palmer C.)