Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Hampton District, Carter Co., Tennessee, USA

mindat Locality ID: 130315
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130315.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hampton District, Carter Co., Tennessee, USA": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 25

Number of Child Localities: 25
Child Localities:
Blevins Prospect
Carden Zinc Prospect (Lyons Prospect)
Carter Saltpeter Cave
Cedar Hill Manganese Mine
Elizabethton; Tennessee Bauxite
Fork Mountain And Harold Prospect (S)
Gardens Bluff Manganese Mine
Grindstaff Cave (Carden Cave)
Grindstaff Prospect
Hardin Prospect
Harold Prospect
Heatherly Prospect
Hodge Manganese Prospect
Hyder Prospect
Jenkins Manganese Mine
Limonite Ore Bank
Miller Prospect
Naves Prospect (Nave Prospect)
Queens Station Bank
Siam Prospect
Stokes Hodge Prospect
Valley Forge Manganese Mine
Watauga Point Zinc Prospect
Winter Manganese Mine (Taylor; Powder Branch Mine; Patton Manganese Mine)
Yokum Prospect

Latitude: 36°17'42"N
Longitude: 82°11'44"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.295,-82.195555555556

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.

Aragonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite

Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*
Gibbsite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Lithiophorite ()*	Manganite ()*	Nitrocalcite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	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: Al C Ca Cu Fe H Li Mg Mn N O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

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

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	266610	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	266610	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	266610	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	10	266589,266591,266592,266594,266600,266602,266603,266609,266610,266611	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	266589,266610	24243
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	1	266592	504
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	266610	1689
Lithiophorite ()*	None	(Al,Li)(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂(OH)₂	2	266596,266605	210
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	1	266611	770
Nitrocalcite ()*	None	Ca(NO₃)₂·4H₂O	2	266590,266595	46
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	266610	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	3	266591,266594,266609	3106
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	266610	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	266589,266610	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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