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Locality Name:
Hardin Co., Tennessee, USA


mindat Locality ID: 130341
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130341.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hardin Co., Tennessee, USA": 51
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 51

Number of Child Localities: 51
Child Localities:
Abel Prospect
Bethleham Prospect
Bruton Branch Prospect
Bumpus Creek Prospect
Burnt Church And School Prospect
Burnt Stand Prospect
Choate Creek Prospect
Coffee Bluff
Covey Chapel Prospect
Cross Roads Chapel Prospect
Deep Well-Sphalerite Occurrence (Memphis Equipt. Company; J. Curtis No. 1)
Dry Creek Road Prospect
Duncan's Chapel & School Prospect
Florence-Walnut Grove Road Prospect
Franks Prospect
Gillis Mills Prospect
Holland Creek Prospect
Horse Creek Prospect
Hosey Prospect
Irwin Prospect
Left Fork Prospect
Little Turkey Creek Prospect
Lowryville Prospect
Morris Chapel Prospect
Mount Herman Chapel Prospect
Mount View School Prospect
Newman Prospect
North Savannah Prospect
Old Hurricane Church Prospect
Olivehall Prospect
Petty Branch Prospect
Pompey Branch Prospect
Reynolds Prospect
Ross Prospect
Savannah Plant No. 531 & Quarry (Savannah Quarry; Vulcan Materials Company; Midsouth Div.)
Seaton Prospect
Shiloh Park Prospect
Smith Fork Prospect
South Morris Chapel Prospect
Tennessee Mine
Tom Irwin Prospect No. 1
Tom Irwin Prospect No. 2
Turkey Creek Prospect
Union Chapel And School Prospect
Unnamed Iron Prospect (MRDS - 10129678)
Unnamed Iron Prospect (MRDS - 10178483)
Unnamed Iron Prospect (MRDS - 10250947)
Unnamed Iron Prospect (MRDS - 10251409)
Unnamed Iron Prospect (MRDS - 10299130)
Unnamed Iron Prospect (MRDS - 10299391)
Watson Prospect

Latitude: 35°10'41"N
Longitude: 88°8'44"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.178055555556,-88.145555555556

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: O S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
NoneQuartzSphalerite

2 IMA Minerals at location:
Quartz  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2126740061156
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS126740321482



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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