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Cox Prospect

Past Producer in Grayson county in Virginia, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Mica, Quartz
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080162
MRDS ID W031254
Record type Site
Current site name Cox Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.22121, 36.58452 (WGS84)
Elevation 780
Relative position 4 MILES S60W OF INDEPENDENCE, VA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grayson(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sparta West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wytheville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winston-Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper New(hydrologic unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kanawha(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Virginia Grayson

Comments on the location information

  • 0.65 MILES W OF THE NEW RIVER; .85 MILES NORTH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE LINE; 3150 FT N46E FROM COX CHAPEL CHURCH ON THE SE FLANK OF A SMALL RIDGE, 450 FT NORTH OF AN UN-NAMED CREEK AND 400 FT WEST OF THE SAME CREEK AFTER IT TURNS NE. FIELD CHECKED 12.85. LOCATION DESCRIPTION IS THE CENTER OF THE WORKINGS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1986)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Mica Tertiary
Quartz Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BARITE OCCURS IN MICA SCHIST WITH QUARTZ VEINS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Muscovite Ore
Mica Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist
    Rock unit name Stoal Gneiss (Stose & Stose, 1957), Cranberry Gneiss Of Elk Park Plutonic Group (Rankin Et Al, 1972)
    Rock description Stoal Gneiss (Stose & Stose, 1957), Cranberry Gneiss Of Elk Park Plutonic Group (Rankin Et Al, 1972)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eoarchean
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eoarchean
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist
    Rock unit name Residual Soil;Cranberry Gneiss
    Rock description Residual Soil;Cranberry Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.22121, 36.58452
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description W-Sw/E-Ne Trending Fries (Thrust) Fault Family Lies To The South
Type of structure Local
Structure description Stose & Stose (1957) Report Mylonized Gneiss At The Prospect.

Ore body information

  • General form LENS, IRREGULAR
    Thickness 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Foliation Planes And Cross Cutting Stringers

Comments on the geologic information

  • MASSIVE, BEDDED BARITE IS BANDED WITH MICA SCHIST AND OFTEN IRON STAINED. DUMP SAMPLES FOUND UP TO 12 INCHES THICK. NO ALTERATION SEEN ALONG BARITE AND COUNTRY ROCK (MICA SCHIST TO MYLONIZED GNEISS) SEEN. SCHISTOSITY FOLIATION ON STRIKE N70E AND DIPS 44SE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1930
Discoverer O. C. Osborne
Year of last production 1952

Mining district

District name Gossan Lead District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Osborne, O. C.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Braswell, Freddie And Janet
    Last year 1986

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.006HA
    Overall depth 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO TEST PITS WERE DUG (DIMENSIONS UNKNOWN) IN 1930. IN 1985, TWO LARGE TRENCHES AND A SHAFT WERE FOUND. WESTERN TRENCH IS APPROXIMATELY 10FT WIDE, 5 TO 8 FT DEEP AND TRENDS N50E FOR 100FT UP HILLSIDE JUST ABOVE CREEK. MAIN (EASTERN TRENCH IS APPROXIMATELY 40FT WIDE, UP TO 20FT DEEP AND TRENDS N85E ALONG CREST OF SMALL HILL BETWEEN CREEKS FOR 200 TO 300 FT. 100 FT EAST OF MAIN TRENCH, A SHALLOW (CAVED) SHAFT IS 5FT BY 5 FT AND 10 TO 15 FT DEEP. EXTENT OF UNDERGROUND WORKINGS UNKNOWN.

Comments on development

  • IN 1930, O.C. OSBORNE, AFTERA RECONNAISSANCE STUDY OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF BARITE FLOAT, DUG TWO TEST PITS ALONG THE INFERRED STRIKE OF THE BARITE BODY. J.B. COX (PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, 1985) STATED THAT THIS PROPERTY WAS WORKED AND BARITE WAS PRODUCE ON A SMALL SCALE IN THE EARLY 1950'S WHEN A LARGE TRENCH WAS DUG ALONG STRIKE. OPERATOR WAS NOT KNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 53, 85P.

  • 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.

  • Deposit

    1930 DIREXPL O.C. OSBORNE - DUG 2 TEST PITS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BARITE OCCURS AS REPLACEMENT LENSES UP TO 2FT THICK ALONG FOLIATION PLANES OF MYLONITIZED GRANITE GNEISS AND IS IRREGULAR.
Deposit FOR GEOLOGIC MAPS, SEE STOSE AND STOSE, 1957, VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 72 AND RANKIN, ESPENSHADE, AND NEWMAN, 1972, USGS MISC. GEOL. INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV; 5 PERS COMM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1980 Trimble, David C. (Sweet, Palmer C.) Virginia Division of Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JAN-1987 Lovett, James A. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources

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