Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Gold-Pyrite Belt, Buckingham Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 105370
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-105370.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gold-Pyrite Belt, Buckingham Co., Virginia, USA": 35
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 33

Number of Child Localities: 29
Child Localities:
Anderson Mine
Apperson Mine (Leseur's Mine)
Bondurant Mine
Bremo Bluff
Buckingham Mines (Wiseman Mines; Incl. Eldridge's Mine; Hesse's Mine)
Bumpus Property Prospect
Burnett Mine (Staples Mine)
Copal Prospect (Kopall Prospect)
Duncan Prospect
Flood Mine (James Anderson's Mine)
Ford Mine
Garnett Mine (Booker Mine)
Gilliam Mine
Greeley Mine (Aye's Mine; Ayres Mine)
Lightfoot Mine (Cowan Mine)
London And Virginia Mine (Eldridge Mine; Project-15-148)
Lost Dutchman Mine
Morton Mine (Hobson Mine)
Moseley Mine
New Canton
North River Prospect
Philadelphia Mine (Allen Mine)
Piedmont Mine
Rough And Ready Mine
Seay Mine
Turpin Creek Mine (Gold Tract; Agee Tract)
Williams Mine
Williamson Mine
Willis Creek Mine

Latitude: 37°33'36"N
Longitude: 78°28'32"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.56,-78.475555555556

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	Apatite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore
Epidote	Gypsum	Halotrichite	Hexahydrite	Malachite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc	Tetrahedrite

Actinolite ()*	Anatase ()*	Anthophyllite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*
Epidote ()*	Gahnite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Hexahydrite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kyanite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pickeringite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*	Tellurium ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Tenorite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mn O P Pb S Sb Si Te Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Diaspore
Epidote Gypsum Halotrichite Hexahydrite Malachite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Talc Tetrahedrite

37 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	1	280130	3419
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	280127	2162
Anthophyllite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	280149	718
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	280128	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	280140	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	4	280128,280146,280147,280148	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	280136,280139,280143	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	12	280124,280126,280129,280134,280137,280140,280142,280145,280146,280147,280148,280157	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	10	280128,280129,280135,280139,280140,280145,280146,280147,280148,280150	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	280139	3846
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	4	280128,280130,280135,280139	8173
Gahnite ()*	Spinel	ZnAl₂O₄	4	280145,280146,280147,280148	445
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	6	280129,280140,280145,280146,280147,280148	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	280130,280146	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	29	280124,280125,280126,280128,280129,280131,280132,280133,280134,280135,280136,280137,280138,280139,280140,280141,280142,280143,280145,280146,280147,280148,280151,280152,280153,280154,280155,280156,280158	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	280129	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	280129,280147	14640
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	1	280127	251
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	280142	5433
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	2	280129,280140	1507
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	8	280126,280128,280129,280130,280139,280146,280148,280155	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	280128,280139	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	9	280124,280125,280126,280129,280131,280133,280134,280146,280147	17380
Pickeringite ()*	Halotrichite	MgAl₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	1	280127	265
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	27	280124,280125,280126,280128,280129,280131,280132,280133,280134,280135,280136,280137,280138,280139,280140,280142,280143,280145,280146,280147,280148,280150,280151,280153,280154,280155,280156	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	280130	3106
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	2	280129,280140	1725
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	5	280140,280145,280146,280147,280148	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	25	280124,280125,280126,280128,280129,280130,280131,280132,280133,280134,280135,280136,280137,280138,280139,280142,280143,280146,280147,280148,280151,280153,280155,280156,280158	61156
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	280147	1516
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	8	280129,280140,280141,280145,280146,280147,280148,280150	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	280140,280145,280146,280147,280148	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	3	280129,280136,280143	3337
Tellurium ()*	None	Te	2	280136,280143	190
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	2	280128,280140	1803
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	280129	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	280129,280140	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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