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Locality Name:
Rockaway Township, Morris Co., New Jersey, USA

mindat Locality ID: 12231
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-12231.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Rockaway Township, Morris Co., New Jersey, USA": 55
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 43

Number of Child Localities: 28
Child Localities:
Allen Mine
Baker Mine
Birch Mine
Burwell Mine
Charlotteburg
Cobb Mine (Split Rock Mine)
Cogill Mine (Cogswell Mine)
Copperas Mountain
Dolan Mine (Doland Mine)
Fairview Mine
Green Pond
Hibernia
Marcella
Meadow Mine
Meriden (Meridan; Mediden; Meridian)
Meriden Quarry
Mt Hope
Mt Pleasant
Picatinny Arsenal
Sigler Mine
Split Rock Pond
Teabo Mine
Tichenor Diggings
Valley View Road Residential Construction Site
Washington Forge Mine
White Meadow Mines (Kitchell Mine; Muir Mine)
Wildcat Ridge Wildlife Management Area
Wood Mine

Latitude: 40°57'14"N
Longitude: 74°29'11"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.953888888889,-74.486388888889

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.

Amorphous	Amphibole	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar
Fluorite	None	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Serpentine	Sphalerite	Spinel	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Augite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferro-actinolite ()*	Ferro-hornblende ()*
Fluorite ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnesio-fluoro-hastingsite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Opal ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*
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: Al Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Amphibole Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Feldspar
Fluorite None Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Serpentine Sphalerite Spinel Zircon

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	243394,243398	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	243373,243397	8803
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	243386	2060
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	243413	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	243394,243398,243412,243413	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	243373,243398,243413	27198
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	3	243378,243412,243413	951
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	5	243373,243394,243408,243412,243413	8173
Ferro-actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_2.5-0.0Fe²⁺_2.5-5.0)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	243394	129
Ferro-hornblende ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Fe²⁺₄Al)(Si₇Al)O₂₂(OH)₂	7	243373,243388,243397,243398,243412,243420,243422	271
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	243398,243412	9617
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	243394,243412	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2	243413,243426	5433
Magnesio-fluoro-hastingsite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Mg₄Fe³⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂F₂	1	243394	6
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	39	243373,243374,243375,243376,243378,243379,243380,243382,243383,243384,243385,243386,243387,243388,243389,243390,243392,243393,243395,243397,243398,243400,243401,243403,243404,243406,243407,243410,243411,243412,243413,243416,243417,243419,243420,243421,243423,243424,243427	14899
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	243373	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2	243373,243413	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	11	243373,243378,243384,243386,243388,243389,243393,243394,243412,243413,243416	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	12	243373,243386,243393,243397,243398,243408,243412,243413,243414,243420,243422,243426	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	2	243373,243413	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	243412	21482
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	243413,243426	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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