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:
Fentress Co., Tennessee, USA

mindat Locality ID: 61967
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-61967.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Fentress Co., Tennessee, USA": 21
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Buffalo Cove
Campbell Saltpeter Cave
Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District
Deep Well-Sphalerite Occurrence (Travis Smith Et Al; L.F. Choate No. 1)
Fentress Company Highway Dept. Quarry (Fentress County Highway Dept.; Fentress County Qy/Pit No. 404)
Gernt Heirs Property No. 1
Gernt Heirs Property No. 2
Gordon Stephens Property No. 1
Gordon Stephens Property No. 2
Jamestown
Joe Young Property
Mountain Eye Cave
Richard Beatty Property
Wolf River Cave
Wright Quarry (Frogge And Williams; Inc.; Wrights Quarry)
Zarathustra Cave

Latitude: 36°24'42"N
Longitude: 84°58'18"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.411666666667,-84.971666666667

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.

Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Fluorite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	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 Cu F Fe H K Mg N O S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Fluorite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Sphalerite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Anhydrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Niter ()*	Nitrocalcite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	267075	1588
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	267082	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	267078,267079	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	8	267077,267079,267085,267087,267088,267089,267090,267092	1252
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	267078	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	267078,267079,267083	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	267078	9617
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	0		5674
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	5	267076,267080,267091,267093,267095	181
Nitrocalcite ()*	None	Ca(NO₃)₂·4H₂O	1	267076	46
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	267075	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	267075,267083	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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