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:
Valley River Belt, Cherokee Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 52942
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-52942.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Valley River Belt, Cherokee Co., North Carolina, USA": 32
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 32

Number of Child Localities: 32
Child Localities:
Betts Mine (Seeley Mine)
C. M. Schlagel Prospect
Carroll Prospect
Cooper Mine (Hanks Mine)
Dockery Mine
Fain-Hitchcock Mine
Ferebee & Young Mine
George Luther Prospect
Guy Green Mine
Hall-Starbuck Mine
Hanks Mine
Hates & Moblitzell Mine
Heaton & Russell Mine
J. W. Walker Mine
J.W. Cooper Prospect
Kinsey-Betts Mine
Kirkpatrick Prospect
Marvacar Mine
McHan Mine
Puett Mine
Ranger Mine
Rogers Prospect
Rogers Prospects
Savage Brothers Mine
Section 6 Prospects (Section 6 Iron Workings)
Seeley Mine
Southern Iron Mining Company Mine (Lena Walker Iron Mine)
Starbuck Mine
Steed Prospect
W. P. Hall Prospects
Washburn Pits
Welch Mine

Latitude: 35°8'36"N
Longitude: 83°56'8"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.143333333333,-83.935555555556

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.

Corundum	Diaspore	None

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: Fe H O

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Corundum Diaspore None

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*

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
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	250087	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			0		14640

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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