Mine detail: Vaught, F. Mine

Previously called 'Shaft Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

36.75536, -81.13148

Resource(B)

Primary:	Barium-Barite
Tertiary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Quartz
Ore:	Barite, Galena
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Other material:	Quartz
Discovery year:	1927

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Residual Clay;Cranberry Gneiss
Host type:	Clay, Mud,Gneiss,Pegmatite
Associated rock:	Cranberry Gneiss Of Elk Park Plutonic Group
Associated type:	Gneiss,Pegmatite
Structure:	Ne-Sw Trend, Blue Ridge Anticlinorium; E-W Trending Stone Mountain Thrust Fault Family., E-W Trending Normal Fault
Tectonic:	Orogen; Stone Mountain Block Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Sheets/Shade Valley Thrust Sheet

References

MRDS	W031261
DEP	10106183
Reference	{Deposit:: EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 53, 85P.}{Deposit:: STOSE & STOSE, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 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, USGS MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A.}{Production:: EDMUNDSON (1938)}
Reporter	Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.), Lovett, James A.