Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Roseland, Amherst Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 105362
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-105362.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Roseland, Amherst Co., Virginia, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Buffalo River Prospect
Burley Prospect (Lucian Burley Prospect; Marion Burley Prospect)
Gillespy Prospect
Smith Prospect (J. D. Smith Tract)
U. S. Titanium Company Mine (Warwick Prospect; American Cyanamide Piney River Mine)
Wares Gap (Weirs Gap)

Latitude: 37°39'40"N
Longitude: 79°6'43"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.661111111111,-79.111944444444

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.

Amphibole	Chevkinite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Gypsum
Kaolinite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Titanite
Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Cerianite-(Ce) ()*	Churchite-(Y) ()*
Clinozoisite ()*	Goethite ()*	Graphite ()*	Halloysite-7Å ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Lithiophorite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*
Perrierite-(Ce) ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Titanite ()*
Vermiculite ()*	Zircon ()*

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: Al C Ca Ce Fe H K Li Mg Mn Na O P S Si Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca O Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Chevkinite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Gypsum
Kaolinite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Titanite
Zircon

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	279626,279630	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	279630	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	2	279627,279631	2162
Cerianite-(Ce) ()*	Fluorite	CeO₂	1	279627	94
Churchite-(Y) ()*	Gypsum	Y(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	279627	70
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	279630	1025
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	279627	7437
Graphite ()*	None	C	2	279628,279630	2812
Halloysite-7Å ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	279627	52
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	5	279626,279627,279628,279629,279630	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	279627,279629	5591
Lithiophorite ()*	None	(Al,Li)(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂(OH)₂	1	279627	210
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	4	279626,279627,279629,279630	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	279627	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	279630	17380
Perrierite-(Ce) ()*	Chevkinite	Ce₄MgFe³⁺₂Ti₂O₈(Si₂O₇)₂	2	279627,279631	46
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	279630	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	279627,279629,279630	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2	279627,279630	5614
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	0		4899
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	1	279630	652
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	279627,279631	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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