Ref.: Brobst, D.A. (1958), Barite Resources of the United States, USGS Bull. 1072-B: 107 (Table 10); Jones, T.A. (1948), barite deposits in the Ouachita Mountains, Montgomery, Polk, and Pike Counties, Arkansas, US Bur. Mines Rept. Inv. 4348.
A bedded baryte deposit area. Related rocks are Arkansas novaculite of Devonian Mississippian age and Stanley shale of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian age.