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Locality Name:
Paulding Co., Georgia, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 550
Youngest recorded age at locality: 550

mindat Locality ID: 24271
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24271.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Paulding Co., Georgia, USA": 66
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 57

Number of Child Localities: 50
Child Localities:
A. Jones Prospect
Acworth
Berg Prospect
Brownsville
Bud
C. B. McGarity Prospect
C. D. Allgood Prospect
C. H. Miller Deposit
Choran Prospect
Cochran Property
Cole Mine
Crowley Property
Dallas
Dever Prospect
Don Watson Prospect
Douglasville
Dr. Parker's Property
Draketown Pyrite District
Dunaway Mine (Dunnaway Mine; Merrit Prospect)
Estes Property
Fred Dukes Prospect
Gamel Quarry
Harmony Church
Helms Prospect
Henry Winn Mine
Hiram
Huntsville
Imel Pit
Jack Moon Heirs Prospect
Lots 533 & 534
Lots 612 & 649
Mathews Property
McGarrity Prospect
Mrs Dora Vaughan Prospect
Mrs Sunie Clay Prospect (Coggins And Smith Prospect)
No Name (10083775)
No Name (10083776)
Paulding County Meteorite
Paulding County Mine
Petty Prospect
Poole Prospect
Rush-Banks Prospect
S. O. Brown Prospect
Schofield Mine
Sheffield And Heidt Properties
Shirley Mine
Turner Prospect
W. J. Miller Prospect
W. P. Hutcheson Prospect
Yorkville

Latitude: 33°54'20"N
Longitude: 84°50'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.905555555556,-84.840555555556

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Amphibole	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite
Cubanite	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	Iron	Malachite	Mica	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrophyllite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Sulphur	Talc
Valleriite	Wurtzite

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Anthophyllite ()*	Azurite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Columbite-(Fe) ()*
Corundum ()*	Covellite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferro-hornblende ()*
Gahnite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Iron ()*
Kyanite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Romanèchite ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*
Taenite ()*	Talc ()*	Tremolite ()*	Valleriite ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al Au Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Na Nb Ni O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Cu H O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Copper Corundum Covellite
Cubanite Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Garnet Iron Malachite Mica Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrophyllite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Sulphur Talc
Valleriite Wurtzite

39 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	550	550	2	202745,202767	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	550	550	1	202767	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			1	202744	2353
Anthophyllite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			2	202745,202764	718
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	550	550	0		5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	550	550	1	202767	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	550	550	2	202767,202785	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	550	550	4	202754,202767,202770,202785	27198
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	550	550	2	202754,202767	1756
Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺Nb₂O₆			1	202763	518
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃			3	202731,202734,202773	1797
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	550	550	2	202754,202767	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	550	550	2	202754,202767	802
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	202736	8173
Ferro-hornblende ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Fe²⁺₄Al)(Si₇Al)O₂₂(OH)₂	550	550	1	202767	271
Gahnite ()*	Spinel	ZnAl₂O₄	550	550	1	202767	445
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	550	550	2	202754,202767	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	550	550	3	202754,202767,202785	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			7	202755,202776,202779,202780,202787,202788,202794	30554
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe			1	202781	1089
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	550	550	0		1507
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	550	550	1	202767	1271
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)			1	202749	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	550	550	4	202741,202752,202754,202767	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	550	550	3	202754,202767,202770	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			9	202739,202740,202742,202753,202763,202783,202784,202790,202791	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	550	550	12	202732,202737,202754,202760,202766,202767,202768,202778,202785,202788,202789,202794	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂			1	202752	3106
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂			1	202759	771
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	550	550	3	202754,202767,202785	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	550	550	13	202740,202741,202752,202753,202763,202766,202767,202768,202771,202783,202788,202790,202794	61156
Romanèchite ()*	None	(Ba,H₂O)₂(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)₅O₁₀			1	202741	312
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	550	550	0		1516
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	550	550	5	202754,202767,202778,202785,202789	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	550	550	2	202767,202788	2045
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)			1	202781	703
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂			2	202745,202764	3337
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			1	202794	2562
Valleriite ()*	Valleriite	2[(Fe,Cu)S]·1.53[(Mg,Al)(OH)₂]	550	550	2	202754,202767	237

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	vms-01049	550	550	Precambrian-Late Cambrian										S	7915	Little Bob Mine, Hiram, Paulding Co., Georgia, USA	Little Bob	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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