Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Madison County Soapstone District, Madison Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 102631
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-102631.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Madison County Soapstone District, Madison Co., North Carolina, USA": 21
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 21

Number of Child Localities: 21
Child Localities:
Brackens Soapstone Mine (Dog Ridge Mine)
Carver Soapstone Mine
Devils Den Soapstone Mine
Edwards No. 1 Soapstone Mine
Edwards No. 2 Soapstone Mine
Edwards No. 3 Soapstone Mine
George Lewis Soapstone Mine
Goforth Soapstone Mine
Guy Roberts Soapstone Mine
Hamlin Soapstone Mine
Higgins Creek Soapstone Mine
Jasper Roberts Soapstone Mine
Laurelton Chapel Soapstone Mine
Little Foster Creek Soapstone Mine
Marshburn Soapstone Mine
R. Franklin Soapstone Mine
Shelton Soapstone Mine (Laurel Creek Mine)
Sodom Soapstone Mine
Tipton Soapstone Mine (Old County Home Mine)
Wilson Soapstone Mine
Wolf Branch Soapstone Occurrence

Latitude: 35°53'52"N
Longitude: 82°38'46"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.897777777778,-82.646111111111

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.

Clay	None	Scheelite	Talc

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: Ca H Mg O Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay None Scheelite Talc

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Scheelite ()*	Talc ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)			11	251541,251543,251544,251545,251546,251547,251548,251549,251554,251557,251560	4894
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂			6	251541,251544,251545,251546,251549,251557	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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