Mine detail: Porter Prospect #1

Previously called 'Old Orchard Prospect'

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Location

Lat / long:

36.75397, -81.11564

Resource(N)

Primary:	Barium-Barite
Ore:	Barite
Orebody form:	LENSE
Discovery year:	1957

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Cranberry Gneiss Of The Elk Park Plutonic Group
Associated type:	Gneiss
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trending Blue Ridge Complex, E-W Trending Stone Mountain Fault Family, E-W Trending Normal Fault (Stose And Stose, 1957).
Tectonic:	On The Ston Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets

References

MRDS	W055399
DEP	10082556
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 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-209-A.}
Reporter	Lovett, James A. (Sweet Palmer C.)