Mine detail: Burley Prospect

Previously called 'Lucian Burley ProspectMarion Burley Prospect'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.62228, -79.12558

Resource(B)

Primary:	Titanium, Metal, Mineral Pigments
Secondary:	Phosphorus-Phosphates, REE, Thorium
Ore:	Anatase, Apatite, Ilmenite, Rutile
Gangue:	Florencite, Magnetite, Microcline, Quartz, Rhabdophane, Zircon
Orebody form:	LINEAR
Discovery year:	1900

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Pegmatite;Nelsonite Dike;Altered Lovingston Formation
Host type:	Diorite,Pegmatite,Granite
Associated rock:	Pegmatite;Nelsonite Dike;Altered Lovingston Formation
Associated type:	Diorite,Pegmatite,Granite
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium
Tectonic:	Orogen
Alteration processes:	Moore (1940) Reports Host Rock To Be Intensely Altered Lovingston Granite Gneiss.

References

MRDS	W031190
DEP	10089765
Reference	{Deposit:: GEITGEY, R.P., 1967, MINERALOGY OF A DEEPLY WEATHERED PERRIERITE-BEARING PEGMATITE IN AMHERST COUNTY, VIRGINIA: UNPUBLISHED MASTE * THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.}{Deposit:: MITCHELL, R. S. AND GEITGEY, R. P., 1968, BARIAN FLORENCITE, WEINSCHENKITE, AND RHABDOPHANE FROM A PERRIERITE - BEARING PEGMATITE IN AMHERST COUNTY, VIRGINIA: SOUTHEASTERN GEOLOGY, V. 9, NO. 3, P. 143-150.}{Deposit:: MOORE, C. H., JR., 1940, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE AMHERST QUADRANGLE, VIRGINIA: UNPUBLISHED PH. D. THESIS, CORNELL UNIVERSITY}{Deposit:: PEGAU, A. A., 1932, PEGMATITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 33, 123 P.}{Deposit:: 1928 RECON VA. GEOL. SURV.: INSPECTED SITE}{Deposit:: 1938 GEOLMAP C. H. MOORE, JR.: MAPPED AREA}{Deposit:: DIREXPL EXPLORATORY AND SPECIMEN PITS DUG}
Reporter	Meintzer, Robert E. (Le Van, D.C.)