Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Washington Co., Tennessee, USA

mindat Locality ID: 106698
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-106698.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Washington Co., Tennessee, USA": 31
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 28

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Boones Creek Quarry (Washington County Highway Dept.)
Broadway Tract (General Shale Products Corp.; Johnson City Pit)
Bumpass Cove District
Corby Quarry (Washington County Highway Dept.)
Cray Quarry (Gray Quarry; Washington County Highway Commission)
Dillow Quarry (Washington County Highway Dept.)
Fall Branch-Greeneville District
Gray
Horse Cove Manganese Prospect
Locust Mount Quarry (Sulphur Springs Quarry)
Sulfur Springs Quarry.
Taylor Bridge Quarry (Washington County Highway Dept.)

Latitude: 36°18'7"N
Longitude: 82°30'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.301944444444,-82.503611111111

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	Fluorite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile
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 F Fe H Mg Mn O Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca F O S Sr

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

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Cerussite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	269317,269318	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	269320	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	0		1252
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	269300,269301	4979
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	10	269297,269300,269301,269302,269303,269305,269308,269310,269311,269320	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	269299,269300	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	6	269300,269301,269302,269308,269309,269310	1689
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	269300,269301,269303,269309,269310	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	269307	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	269307,269309,269320	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2	269300,269308	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	269299,269300,269301,269309,269310	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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