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:
Roane Co., Tennessee, USA

mindat Locality ID: 130378
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130378.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Roane Co., Tennessee, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
A. B. Long Quarries
Area-B Chamberlain-Barnardsville Deposit
Emory Gap Plant No. 522
Euchee
Glen Alice Area
Harriman Area
Kingston Saltpeter Cave
Lambert Brothers Quarry (Rockwood Slag Products Company)
North Chamberlain-Barnardville Deposit
Rockwood-Emory Gap Area
South Chamberlain-Barnardville Deposit
Swan Pond Quarry (A. B. Long Quarries; Inc.)
Sweetwater Barite District-Western Belt
Unnamed Barite Occurrence (MRDS - 10091868)
Webster Quarry

Latitude: 35°50'34"N
Longitude: 84°36'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.842777777778,-84.600277777778

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.

Baryte	Corundum	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt

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: Ba C Ca Fe K Mg N O Pb S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Corundum None Pyrite Rocksalt

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Baryte ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Hematite ()*	Niter ()*
Pyrite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	5	268943,268944,268945,268946,268947	11547
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	5	268943,268944,268945,268946,268947	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	268943	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	7	268928,268931,268932,268933,268934,268935,268939	14640
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	1	268936	181
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	268943	39462

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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