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Locality Name:
Moneta-Forest, Bedford Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24708
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24708.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Moneta-Forest, Bedford Co., Virginia, USA": 28
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 19
Child Localities:
Creasy Mine
Egypt Mines
Everett Mine (Walton Mine)
Hicks Mine
Hudson Prospect (Thurman?)
Jack White Mine
Jordon-Braxton Mine
Minnie Martin Mine
Nance Pegmatite Mine (Big Harris Mine)
Otter Hill
Peaks Of Otter
Poindexter Mine
Radford Prospect
Schwerin Mine
Sunny Knoll Mine
Wells Mine
Wheatley Pegmatite Mine (Big Hicks Mine; Moneta Mine)
Willie Walker Prospect
Young Feldspar Mine

Latitude: 37°16'16"N
Longitude: 79°26'6"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.271111111111,-79.435

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.

Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet
Kaolinite	Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Sphalerite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Beryl ()*	Bornite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Clinozoisite ()*	Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Microcline ()*
Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Siderite ()*	Spessartine ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*
Yttrialite-(Y) ()*	Zircon ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 Be C Ca Ce Cu Fe H K Mn Na Nb O S Si Ta Th Ti U Y Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Garnet
Kaolinite Mica None Pyrite Quartz Rutile Sphalerite Zircon

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	4	279921,279926,279934,279936	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2	279911,279926	2353
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1	279926	4286
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	279926	5516
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	279926	27198
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	279921	1025
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	3	279921,279926,279936	414
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	279923	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	3	279915,279924,279930	5591
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	3	279911,279914,279921	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	19	279909,279911,279914,279915,279916,279917,279918,279919,279920,279921,279924,279926,279929,279931,279932,279933,279934,279935,279936	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	3	279921,279934,279936	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	279914,279921,279926,279936	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	9	279911,279914,279915,279921,279924,279926,279928,279934,279936	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	279936	5614
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	YFe³⁺Nb₂O₈	1	279926	353
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	279926	6417
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2	279914,279934	1214
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	279926	21482
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	279921	890
Yttrialite-(Y) ()*	None	Y₂Si₂O₇	1	279934	25
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	279921	5251
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	5	279914,279921,279926,279934,279936	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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