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Locality Name:
Bumpass Cove District, Unicoi Co., Tennessee, USA

mindat Locality ID: 19437
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19437.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bumpass Cove District, Unicoi Co., Tennessee, USA": 33
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 31

Number of Child Localities: 31
Child Localities:
Baptist Hollow Deposit (Old Embree Iron Company Workings)
Big Moccasin Zinc Mine
Clark Creek Deposit
Davenport Iron Mine
Dry Branch Zinc Mine (Dry Branch West Mine; McNabb Mine)
East Baptist Hollow Manganese Mine
Embree Iron Company No. 13 Zinc Mine
Embree Iron Company No. 14 Mine And Extension
Fowler Iron-Zinc Mine
Frog Zinc Mine
Lick Log Hollow Open Cuts Manganese
Lick Log Zinc Shaft
Lower Red Cut Iron
Madcap Manganese Mine
New Peach Orchard Zinc-Lead Shaft (No. 205 Shaft)
Number 5 Zinc Mine
Peach Orchard Mine
Rock Quarry Flux (MRDS - 10102255)
Simmons Branch
Simmons Branch Mine And Small Mines East Of Simmons Branch
Small Unnamed Iron Mines (MRDS - 10025204)
Small Unnamed Iron Mines (MRDS - 10025275)
Starnes Iron Mine
Tennessee Zinc And Lead Company No. 14 Mine Shafts No. 3 And No. 4.
Tennessee Zinc And Lead Company Shafts Nos. 1 & 2
Tunnel Iron Mine
Unnamed Fe Mines [1] (Small Unnamed Iron Mines)
Upper Red Cut Iron
West Baptist Hollow Manganese Mine
West Ore Bank Manganese
Yates Hollow Iron Mine

Latitude: 36°8'51"N
Longitude: 82°29'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.1475,-82.499722222222

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Coronadite	Corundum	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cryptomelane ()*	Dolomite ()*
Galena ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Manganite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	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: C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mn O Pb S Si Zn

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Coronadite Corundum None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	0		2734
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	269174,269182	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	1	269197	599
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	27	269167,269169,269170,269171,269172,269173,269174,269175,269176,269177,269178,269179,269180,269181,269182,269183,269184,269187,269188,269189,269190,269191,269194,269195,269196,269197,269198	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	269170,269182	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	269193	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	11	269167,269170,269172,269173,269174,269175,269180,269181,269182,269187,269191	1689
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	1	269166	770
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	269173	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	4	269166,269171,269196,269197	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	269171,269196,269197	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	6	269172,269173,269177,269180,269181,269182	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	269170,269173,269174,269182	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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