Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Lee Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 105402
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-105402.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lee Co., Virginia, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Ben Hur Mine
Boones Path Mines
Cumberland Mountain Saltpeter Cave
Ewing Mine
Ewing Stone Quarry No. 1 & Mill (Southeastern Stone Quarries; Inc.; Ewing Stone Quarry No. 1)
Gilley Cave (White House Cave)
Grabill Mine
Hagen
Irondale Mines
Jasper Saltpeter Cave
Jones Saltpeter Cave (Ewing Saltpeter Cave)
Keysone Mine
Lavine Mine
Lee-Wise Occurrence
Noes Siding Mine
Pennington Mine
Powell Valley Stone Company Inc.
Reason Cave
Southeastern Stone Quarry
Truro Mine
Wheeler Quarry (Kentucky Virginia Stone Company)
Woodway Stone Quarry

Latitude: 36°43'5"N
Longitude: 83°7'39"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.718055555556,-83.1275

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.

Corundum	Gypsum	Hexahydrite	None	Not in a structural group	Scacchite	Starkeyite

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: C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg N Na O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Cl H Mg Na O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Corundum Gypsum Hexahydrite None Not in a structural group Scacchite Starkeyite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Anhydrite ()*	Chloromagnesite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*
Hexahydrite ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*	Niter ()*	Starkeyite ()*	Thénardite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	281654	1588
Chloromagnesite ()*	Scacchite	MgCl₂	0		4
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	0		9895
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	281651,281654	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	10	281646,281647,281649,281652,281655,281658,281659,281661,281662,281666	14640
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	0		251
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	281651	341
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	5	281648,281651,281656,281657,281664	181
Starkeyite ()*	Starkeyite	Mg(SO₄)·4H₂O	0		79
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	0		299

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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