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Name: All Healing Springs Barite Mine
Type: Man-made mine
GPS Coordinates: Latitude:  N 35° '
Longitude:  W 081° '
Elevation:   ?? ft
Orientation: Open Pit Mines?
PoInt Reached From: Near Linwood Visitor Center
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From 1949 Geo&Studies_VanHorn_etal
Mines and Prospects

All Healing Springs - Barite appears in two small pits, 2,000 feet apart, in the west bank of a black top road near the old settlement of All Healing Springs, 4.3 miles N88degE of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.  The northernmost pit is 4,300 feet N20degE of Crowders Peak, and the southerly pit is 4,000 feet N31degE of Crowders Peak.  These locations are shown in Keith's folio.  No new barite occurrences have been found near the locality, except for loose fragments which may have come from the existing pits, where veins up to 2 inches thick crop out in sericite schist.  It would appear from the map as if the barite zone has a strike of about N20degW, but the readings on the foliation average N40degE.








It is likely that this mine is the following:
(data gathered from mindat.org)


All Healing Springs Northern Barite Prospect, Kings Mountain District, Gaston Co., North Carolina, USA

Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 35° 14' 29'' North : 81° 16' 16'' West
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal Degrees): 35.2413888889 : -81.2711111111
Latitude & Longitude (Degrees plus Decimal Minutes): 35° 14.4833333333': -81° 16.2666666667'

REF:Deposit:: KEITH, ARTHUR, 1931 , GAFFNEY - KINGS MOUNTAIN S. C. - N. C. FOLIO NO. 222 , USGS GEOL. ATLAS OF THE U. S., PROSPECT TEXT P. 10 , PROSPECT SYMBOL ON MAP AT 1 : 62,500 , TEXT 13 P.
Deposit:: VAN HORN, E. C. LE GRAND, J. R., AND MC MURRAY, L.L., 1949, NC DEPT
Deposit:: OF CONS & DEVEL BULL 57, P. 10.
Commodities (Major) - Barium-Barite
Development Status: Occurrence
Host Rock Unit: Cerrillos Formation
Structure: North Trending Crowders Mountain Anti Form, Battleground Schist Strikes N 45 E And Dips 30 To 60 Se
Host Rock: Schist
Tectonic Structure: Nne Trending Folds And Faults

Mineral List

Baryte
'Chlorite Group'
 'K Feldspar'
Muscovite
 Quartz
'Tourmaline'

AHS-NBP


All Healing Springs Southern Barite Prospect, Kings Mountain District, Gaston Co., North Carolina, USA

Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 35° 14' 29'' North : 81° 16' 12'' West
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal Degrees): 35.2413888889 : -81.27
Latitude & Longitude (Degrees plus Decimal Minutes): 35° 14.4833333333': -81° 16.2'

REF:Deposit:: KEITH, ARTHUR, 1931 , GAFFNEY - KINGS MOUNTAIN S. C. - N. C. FOLIO NO. 222 , USGS GEOL. ATLAS OF THE U. S., PROSPECT TEXT P. 10 , PROSPECT SYMBOL ON MAP AT 1 : 62,500 , TEXT 13 P.
Deposit:: VAN HORN, E. C., LE GRAND, J. R., AND MC MURRAY, L. L 1949, NC DEPT
Deposit:: OF CONS & DEVEL BULL 57, P. 10.
Commodities (Major) - Barium-Barite
Development Status: Occurrence
Host Rock Unit: Nugget Sandstone
Structure: Battleground Schist Strikes N 45 E And Dips 30 To 60 Se, North Trending Crowders Mountain Antiform
Host Rock: Schist
Tectonic Structure: Nne Trending Folds And Faults

Mineral List

Baryte
'Chlorite Group'
 'K Feldspar'
Muscovite
 Quartz
'Tourmaline'

AHS-SBP






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