Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Alta Vista, Campbell Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 108814
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-108814.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Alta Vista, Campbell Co., Virginia, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Andalusite Locality
Railroad Cut
Route 29
State Routes 711 & 712

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.

Alunite	Andalusite	Autunite	Chloritoid	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Diaspore	Digenite	Epidote
Feldspar	Garnet	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Staurolite

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Andalusite ()*	Autunite ()*	Bornite ()*
Chloritoid ()*	Corundum ()*	Crandallite ()*	Digenite ()*	Epidote ()*
Gibbsite ()*	Goethite ()*	Halloysite-7Å ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Kyanite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Paragonite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Staurolite ()*

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 Ca Cu Fe H K Na O P S Si Ti U

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Andalusite Autunite Chloritoid Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Diaspore Digenite Epidote
Feldspar Garnet Kaolinite Mica None Not in a structural group Quartz Rutile Spinel Staurolite

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	280186	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	280185	2353
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	280185	1310
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	1	280187	1272
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	280186	5516
Chloritoid ()*	Chloritoid	Fe²⁺Al₂O(SiO₄)(OH)₂	1	280185	376
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	280185	1797
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	1	280185	310
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	280186	1027
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	280186	8173
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	1	280185	504
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	280185	7437
Halloysite-7Å ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	280185	52
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	280185	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	280185	5591
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	280185	1507
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	280185,280186	14899
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	280185	17380
Paragonite ()*	Mica Clay	NaAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	280185	247
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	280185,280188	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	280185	5614
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	280185	1516
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	1	280185	978

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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