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Locality Name:
James River-Roanoke River Mn-Fe-Ba District, Campbell Co., Virginia, USA


mindat Locality ID: 105373
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-105373.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "James River-Roanoke River Mn-Fe-Ba District, Campbell Co., Virginia, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Bragg Barite Mine
Cundiff Barite Prospect
Grasty Manganese Mine
Hewitt Barite Mine
Joshua Creek Manganese Mines
Leets Manganese Mine (Whitman; Smithson; Trent; Mount Athos)
Lewis Barite-Mn Mine (Langhorne Barite Prospect)
Maddox Mn Mine (Mattox Mn Mine; Mattocks Mine)
McGehee Limonite Prospect
McGehee Mn Mine (Arthur Mn Mine)
Oliver Limonite Mine
Oxford Iron Mine (Ross)
Phillips Mn Mine
Piedmont Manganese Mine (Myers; Lerner)
Railroad Iron Property (Wood Iron Mine; Unnamed Limonite Mine)
Slippery Branch Limonite Prospect (Mount Athos Limonite Mine; Mount Athos Prospect)
Wood's Mn Mine (Hall Mine)

Latitude: 37°16'39"N
Longitude: 79°3'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.2775,-79.066388888889

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mn O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
BaryteChalcopyriteClinozoisiteCoronaditeCorundumDiasporeEpidoteMalachiteNonePyrite
RutileSpinel

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Baryte  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Cryptomelane  (*)Epidote  (*)Goethite  (*)
Hematite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Malachite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrolusite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)6280249,280250,280251,280252,280255,28025611547
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS23280250,280251,28025227198
Cryptomelane  (*)CoronaditeK(Mn4+7Mn3+)O161280262599
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)12802508173
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)12802597437
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O33280255,280259,28026314640
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4128026314899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2128025012537
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2128025239462
Pyrolusite  (*)RutileMnO25280251,280253,280255,280256,2802623106



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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