Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Montgomery Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 105406
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-105406.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Montgomery Co., Virginia, USA": 46
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 37

Number of Child Localities: 32
Child Localities:
Alleghany Springs Prospect
Austinville Lead-Zinc
Barringer Mountain
Blacksburg
Brush Creek
Brush Creek Mine (Walters Mine)
Childress Quarry
Cloyd Prospect
Dixie Caverns
Dudley Farm Occurrence
Ellet
Ellett Quarry
Gap Mountain Prospect
Herbert C. Jewell Prospect
Ironto
Johnson Prospect
Lafayette
Little River Prospect
Long Shop
Lusters Gate
Merrimac Tunnel
Montgomery Limestone Corporation Quarry 2
Pilot Knob Prospect (Abners Knob Prospect)
Radford Number 5 (Montgomery Limestone Corp.)
Riner
Roanoke River
Rogers Quarry
Route 102 Prospect
Shawsville
South Christianburg Prospect
Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province
Walker And Vaughn Prospects

Latitude: 37°8'36"N
Longitude: 80°22'9"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.143333333333,-80.369166666667

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.

Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Diaspore	Fluorite	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Palygorskite	Pyrite	Pyrosmalite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Zircon

Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bütschliite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Gold ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Kalicinite ()*	Nelenite ()*	Palygorskite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	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 As Au Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn O Pb S Si Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Fe O S Si Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Diaspore Fluorite Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Palygorskite Pyrite Pyrosmalite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Zircon

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	281862	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	281903	9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	281862,281864,281866	11547
Bütschliite ()*	None	K₂Ca(CO₃)₂	1	281885	11
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	281864,281872,281901,281902	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	5	281864,281865,281889,281902,281903	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	7	281861,281864,281889,281893,281901,281902,281903	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	281864	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	281859,281861,281889,281893	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	281884	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	281868	30554
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	281893	1689
Kalicinite ()*	None	KH(CO₃)	1	281885	7
Nelenite ()*	Pyrosmalite Clay	Mn²⁺₁₆As³⁺₃Si₁₂O₃₆(OH)₁₇	1	281891	4
Palygorskite ()*	Palygorskite Clay	(Mg,Al)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)·4H₂O	1	281864	306
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	281864,281884,281902,281903	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	0		9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	281864,281865,281872,281886,281902,281903	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	281887	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	0		5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	281893	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	8	281861,281870,281889,281893,281901,281902,281903,281904	21482
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	0		5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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