Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Altavista, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 108719
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-108719.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Altavista, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Old Woman Creek
Pittsylvania Wayside
Roadcut
Roadcut (2)
Unnamed Pegmatite

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Andalusite	Beryl	Clay	Corundum	Digenite	Feldspar	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Spinel
Staurolite	Titanite

Andalusite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Beryl ()*	Bornite ()*	Cordierite ()*
Digenite ()*	Gibbsite ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Paragonite ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Staurolite ()*	Titanite ()*

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 Be Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Cu Fe H O S Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Beryl Clay Corundum Digenite Feldspar Mica None Not in a structural group Spinel
Staurolite Titanite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	282181	1310
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	0		1036
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1	282185	4286
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	0		5516
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	282181	1008
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	0		1027
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	0		504
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0		14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	282183,282184	14899
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	282181,282182	17380
Paragonite ()*	Mica Clay	NaAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	282181	247
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	0		1516
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	1	282181	978
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	0		4899

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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