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Locality Name:
Rye Valley Lead-Zinc District, Smyth Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 105431
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-105431.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Rye Valley Lead-Zinc District, Smyth Co., Virginia, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Calhoun Prospect
Livesay Prospect
Martin Prospect (Cullop Property Prospect)
McCarter Prospect
McCarter West Prospect
R. N. Ward Prospect
Rye Valley Mining Company Mine (Chamberlain Mine; Sugar Grove Mine; Sugar Mine)
Scott Prospect
Scott Prospect No. 2
Unnamed Occurrence
Van Hoy Prospect

Latitude: 36°46'14"N
Longitude: 81°28'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.770555555556,-81.481944444444

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	Fluorite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite

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 F Fe H Mg Mn O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Fluorite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Manganite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	282920,282926	27770
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	11	282919,282920,282921,282922,282923,282924,282925,282926,282927,282928,282929	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	282925,282927	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	282920,282921,282924,282925	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	282919	1689
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	1	282919	770
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	282922,282925	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	282919	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	282919	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	8	282919,282920,282921,282922,282923,282925,282926,282929	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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