Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Straight Creek District, Claiborne Co., Tennessee, USA

mindat Locality ID: 130320
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130320.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Straight Creek District, Claiborne Co., Tennessee, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Bunch Prospect
G. L. Phelps Prospects
Jennings Prospect
Lewis Phelps Prospect
O. B. Jones Prospect
Straight Creek Mine
W. Burch Prospect
William Jennings Prospect

Latitude: 36°23'52"N
Longitude: 83°38'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.397777777778,-83.633611111111

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	Melanterite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

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: C Ca Cd Fe H Mg O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

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

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Greenockite ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	266769	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	266767	4979
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	266767,266769	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	266765,266767,266768,266769	24243
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	2	266767,266769	717
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	2	266767,266769	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	266769	1066
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	266769	915
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	266767,266769,266770	39462
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	5	266765,266767,266769,266770,266771	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	266767,266768,266769,266770	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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