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


mindat Locality ID: 105434
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-105434.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gold-Pyrite Belt, Stafford Co., Virginia, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Austin Run Mine (Fer-Sul; Garrisonville; Old Dominion)
Eagle Mine (Morgan And Rappahannock; Smith)
Elliot Farm Mine
Horse Pen Mine (Hospen Mine; Horse Pin Mine; Rattlesnake Mine)
Lee Prospect
MacDonald Prospect
Monroe Mine
New Hope Mine (Newhope Mine)
Pris-King Mine
Prospect A Stafford Company
Rattlesnake Mine
Washington Mine
Wise Farm Mine

Latitude: 38°22'54"N
Longitude: 77°33'52"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.381666666667,-77.564444444444
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 Au Bi Ca Cu Fe H K O Pb S Si Te Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ChalcopyriteClayClinozoisiteCopiapiteCopperEpidoteMicaNonePyriteQuartz
RocksaltSphaleriteTetradymite

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Chalcopyrite  (*)Copiapite  (*)Epidote  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)
Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Tetradymite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2128306227198
Copiapite  (*)CopiapiteFe2+Fe3+4(SO4)6(OH)2·20H2O1283062382
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)12830628173
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS128306324243
Gold  (*)CopperAu11283063,283064,283065,283066,283067,283068,283069,283070,283071,283072,28307430554
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2128306217380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS25283062,283063,283068,283072,28307339462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO211283062,283063,283065,283067,283068,283069,283070,283071,283072,283073,28307461156
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS128306321482
Tetradymite  (*)TetradymiteBi2Te2S1283068510


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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