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:
Polk Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 102644
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-102644.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Polk Co., North Carolina, USA": 30
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 26

Number of Child Localities: 26
Child Localities:
Adams Mine
Carpenter Mine
Davis Mine
Double Branch Mine
Hamilton Mine
L.A Mine
Likan Mine
MacIntire Mine
Mill Spring Quarry
Mill's Spring
Morris Mine
Neal Mine
North Star Mine
Pattie Mine
Ponder Mine
Price Mine
Red Spring Mine
Riding Mine
Smith Mine
Splawn Mine
Tom Mine
Unnamed Marble Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Mica Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Mica Sample Locality (MRDS - 10026310)
Wetherbee Mine
Whistnant Mine

Latitude: 35°21'22"N
Longitude: 82°12'8"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.356111111111,-82.202222222222

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rutile	Staurolite	Zircon

Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Epidote ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Silver ()*	Staurolite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*	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: Ag Al Au C Ca Cu Fe H K O P S Si Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Fe H O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rutile Staurolite Zircon

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0		27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	252403,252405,252406	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		8173
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	20	252384,252385,252386,252387,252388,252390,252391,252392,252395,252396,252399,252400,252402,252403,252404,252405,252406,252408,252412,252413	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	252409	2812
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	252397,252410	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	252387,252403,252405,252406	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	252387,252397,252403,252405,252406,252409	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	252413	5614
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	252409	1516
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	252387	5186
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	0		978
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	252413	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	252413	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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