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Locality Name:
Virgilina District, Halifax Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 27212
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27212.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Virgilina District, Halifax Co., Virginia, USA": 21
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Abbott Prospect
Anaconda Mine
Baynham Prospect
Chappell Prospect (Chappel Prospect)
Dorothy Mine (Bailey Mine)
Dryburg Prospect
Esther May Prospect
Gill's Mountain Prospect
High Hill
Holloway Mine (Eustis Mine)
Kay Prospect
Littlejohn Prospect (Little John Copper Company Mine)
Luce And Howard Mine (Tallyhill Mine; Howard Mine)
Morong Prospect (Mother Lode Prospect)
Pandora Prospect
Pontiac Mine (Tuck Property)
Poole And Harris Prospect (Pool Prospect)
Red Bank Mine (Goldbank Mine)
Seaboard Mine (Seaboard Copper Company Mine)
Wall Mine

Latitude: 36°36'53"N
Longitude: 78°45'37"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.614722222222,-78.760277777778

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.

Acanthite	Allophane	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Digenite
Epidote	Feldspar	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Sphalerite	Spinel
Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Albite ()*	Anilite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Azurite ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Digenite ()*	Djurleite ()*
Epidote ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spionkopite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Wittichenite ()*	Yarrowite ()*

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: Ag Al As Au Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Na O S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Bi C Ca Cu Fe Mg O S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite Digenite
Epidote Feldspar Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Sphalerite Spinel
Tetrahedrite

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	281378	2793
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	4	281378,281384,281385,281388	8803
Anilite ()*	Digenite	Cu₇S₄	0		88
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	0		3092
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	5	281373,281378,281380,281385,281389	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	12	281369,281371,281372,281373,281375,281378,281380,281381,281384,281385,281388,281389	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	281378,281385,281388,281389	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	13	281369,281370,281371,281372,281373,281375,281378,281380,281381,281384,281385,281388,281389	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	281378,281379,281383,281385	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	281376	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	0		3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	281378,281385	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	4	281373,281380,281384,281385	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	0		1027
Djurleite ()*	None	Cu₃₁S₁₆	0		300
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8	281370,281371,281378,281381,281384,281385,281388,281389	8173
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	281374,281376,281382,281386,281387	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	4	281378,281385,281387,281388	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	0		14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	13	281369,281370,281372,281373,281375,281378,281380,281381,281383,281384,281385,281388,281389	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	281378	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	281378	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	281387	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	18	281369,281370,281371,281372,281373,281375,281376,281378,281380,281381,281382,281383,281384,281385,281386,281387,281388,281389	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	0		6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	0		5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	0		21482
Spionkopite ()*	None	Cu₃₉S₂₈	0		73
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	281370	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	281370	5317
Wittichenite ()*	None	Cu₃BiS₃	0		297
Yarrowite ()*	None	Cu₉S₈	0		70

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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