Excerpt from Mineral Resources of Bland County in Southwestern Virginia The range of mineral occurrence in Southwestern Virginia and especially in the mountain county of Bland is wide and varied, com prising within its scope Building Stones (granite, syenite, gneiss, sandstone and limestone), N oat-metallic Minerals (pyrite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, fluorite, silica, ocher, manganese, feldspar, asbestos, talc and soapstone, fullers earth, barite and gypsum), Cement Materials. Clays, Copper, Zinc and Lead (sphalerite, calamine and galenite), Iron Ores (oriskany, hematite, magnetite and limonite) and Coal (bituminous, semi-bituminous, Pocahontas, montgomery-pulaski and bland-wythe fields) of the highest steam and coking grade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.