| Deposit ID | 10080165 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | W031257 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Moore Prospect #1 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -81.05398, 36.63508 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 725 |
| Relative position | APPROXIMATELY 5.4 MILES N83E FROM INDEPENDENCE, VA |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Virginia | Grayson |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Barium-Barite Critical | Primary |
| Calcium | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Barite | Ore |
| Chlorite | Gangue |
| Feldspar | Gangue |
| Muscovite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Calcite | Unknown |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss | ||||||||
| Rock unit name | Cranberry Gneiss | ||||||||
| Rock description | Cranberry Gneiss | ||||||||
| |||||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss |
| Rock unit name | Cranberry Gneiss |
| Rock description | Cranberry Gneiss |
| (1) | -81.05398, 36.63508 |
|---|
| 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 |
| General form | IRREGULAR, LENSES |
|---|---|
| Strike | N50E |
| Dip | 30SE |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Non-metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1929 |
| District name | Gossan Lead District |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Dixon Luber Co. |
| First year | 1986 |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | W031257 |
EDMUNDSON, R.S., 1938, BARITE DEPOSITS OF VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 53, 85P.
STOSE & STOSE, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GOSSAN LEAD DISTRICT AND ADJACENT AREAS IN VIRGINIA: VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 72, 233P.
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.
| 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 |
| 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 |
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