Moore Prospect #1

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10080165
MRDS ID W031257
Record type Site
Current site name Moore Prospect #1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -81.05398, 36.63508 (WGS84)
Elevation 725
Relative position APPROXIMATELY 5.4 MILES N83E FROM INDEPENDENCE, VA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grayson(county)

Virginia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Brierpatch Mountain(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

  • 3.2 MILES 535W OF RIVERSIDE, 1.2 MILES S10E FROM THE POOLE PROSPECT, 1800 FT S3W FROM THE INTERSECTION OF STATE ROADS 631 AND 635 ON THE SW SIDE OF STATE ROAD 631. RAY LANG (PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, 1986) STATE BARITE HAD BEEN PROSPECTED HERE ON THE "OLD MOORE PLACE" FARM. FIELD EXAMINATIONS CONDUCTED 1/10/86 AND 2/6/86. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1986)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Calcium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Calcite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Biotite Altered To Chlorite, Barite Replaced The Gneiss Forming A Zone 2 Ft Wide.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Cranberry Gneiss
    Rock description Cranberry Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Cranberry Gneiss
    Rock description Cranberry Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -81.05398, 36.63508

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne-Sw Trending Fries Overthrust Fault To North And Gossan Lead Overthrust To The South (Stose & Stose, 1957).
Type of structure Local
Structure description Local Shear/Fracture Zone In Mylonite Gneiss

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, LENSES
    Strike N50E
    Dip 30SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture Zone, Gneissic Foliation

Comments on the geologic information

  • MOORE PROSPECT OCCURS IN A MYLONITIZED GRANITE GNEISS IN A FAULT ZONE. FOR GEOLOGIC MAP, SEE RANKIN, ESPENSHADE, AND NEWMAN, 1972, USGS MISC. GEOL. INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A. THE GRANITE MYLONITE AND GNEISS STRIKES N50E AND DIPS 30 TO 48 DEGREES SE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1929

Mining district

District name Gossan Lead District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Dixon Luber Co.
    First year 1986

Comments on the workings information

  • A FEW SHALLOW TEST PITS WERE DUG. NO INDICATION OF WORKINGS, PITS OR DUMPS COULD BE LOCATED IN THE FIELD.

Comments on development

  • SITE WAS PROSPECTED IN 1929 BY TEST PITS. STOSE & STOSE (1957) INDICATED 2 PROSPECTS, 1 SW OF STATE ROAD 631 ALONG A SMALL STREAM (MAIN PROSPECT) AND THE OTHER NE OF STATE ROAD 631 ALONG THE HILL CREST.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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 PART OF THE WINSTON SALEM QUADRANGLE, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND TENNESSEE, USGS MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-709-A.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BARITE OCCURS AS TABULAR AND LENS-SHAPED MASSES, WITH A MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 0.3M (1.0 FT), NEAR THE SURFACE; VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL EXTENT UNKNOWN. BARITE PARTLY REPLACED THE MOST SCHIST AND SUBSEQUENT WEATHERING REMOVED MANY OF THE PLATY MINERALS, BUT THEIR FORMER PRESENCE IS INDICATED BY THE NUMEROUS PARALLEL BANDS OF CAVITITES IN THE BARITE LENSES. THE BARITE IS BADLY CONTAMINATED WITH IRON OXIDE AND INCLUDED MINERAL FRAGMENTS OF THE ENCLOSING ROCK.
Deposit EDMUNDSON (1938) AND STOSE & STOSE (1957) LOCATE AND DESCRIBE THIS PROSPECT. THE FIELD EXAMINATIONS WERE CONDUCTED ON 1/10/86 AND 2/6/86. NO SURFACE WORKINGS OR INDICATION OF PROSPECTING COULD BE FOUND. MUCH OF THE AREA HAS BEEN RECENTLY REPLANTED WITH PINE TREES AND IS GROWN OVER. MR. RAY LANG (PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, 1986) STATED THAT A PROSPECT HAD BEEN DUG SW OF STATE ROAD 631 ON THE "OLD MOORE PLACE" FARM MANY YEARS AGO, AT THE SAME LOCATION SHOWN BY STOSE & STOSE (1957) ON THEIR GEOLOGIC MAP. APPARENTLY, THE PROSPECT (SMALL PITS) HAS BEEN FILLED IN AND/OR/ GROWN OVER. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV; 5 PERS COMM

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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