Mine detail: Vaught, George, Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

36.74814, -81.11453

Resource(N)

Tertiary:	Barium-Barite, Quartz
Ore:	Barite, Quartz
Orebody form:	LENSE, PINCH AND SWELL
Discovery year:	1957

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Residual Clays
Host type:	Clay, Mud,Gneiss
Associated rock:	Cranberry Gneiss Of Elk Park Plutonic Group
Associated type:	Gneiss
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trending Blue Ridge Complex, E-W Trending Stone Mountain Fault Familt, Ne-Sw Trending Traverse Fault
Tectonic:	On The Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets

References

MRDS	W055400
DEP	10082557
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-709-A.}
Reporter	Lovett, James A. (Sweet Palmer C.)