Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Spar Mountain (Iron Mountain), Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

mindat Locality ID: 54566
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-54566.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Spar Mountain (Iron Mountain), Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Austin Group
Hastie's Quarry
Robinson Mine
Spar Mountain Mine
West Morrison-Oxford Pit

Latitude: 37°30'27"N
Longitude: 88°12'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.5075,-88.207777777778

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Diaspore	Fluorite	Gypsum	Malachite	None
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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: Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Diaspore Fluorite Gypsum Malachite None
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	5	212620,212621,212622,212623,212626	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	212620,212621,212622,212623,212626	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	212626	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	212622,212623,212625	27198
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	8	212620,212621,212622,212623,212624,212625,212626,212628	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	212621,212622,212623,212626	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	212622,212623	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	212622	6890
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	212622,212623	12537
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	212623	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	212621,212626,212627	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2	212623,212626	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	212623,212626	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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