Comment: People of Virginia, we need to fight uranium mining in VA because look at the old reports from 1984, Nelson County, y r next! No to uranium mining! thanks dl
Vol. 30 November 1984 No. 4
William Mark Bailey'
The Horseshoe Mountain quadrangle is located within the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province of central Virginia .
The study area is the northern half of the quadrangle and is part of the Roseland titanium mining district. The area is mountainous with relief ranging from about 3000 to 1200 feet.
Two major mappable associations recognized are: 1) massive or gneissic textured rocks which retain evidence of a primary granulite to amphibolite facies mineralogy, and 2) ductilely deformed,mylonitic rocks which possess a retrograde greenschist mineralogy.
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http://dmme.virginia.gov/DMR3/dmrpdfs/vamin/VAMIN_VOL30_NO04.PDF
