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Locality Name:
Powell River District, Union Co., Tennessee, USA


mindat Locality ID: 130389
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130389.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Powell River District, Union Co., Tennessee, USA": 26
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Ausmus
Beeler Prospect
Bowen Occurrence
Caldswell Mine
Cox Prospects
Dees Prospect
Eastern Braden Prospect
Eastern H. M. Graves Prospect
Eastern Williams Prospect
Evans Prospect
J. W. Taylor Prospect
New Prospect Mine (Leadmine Bend)
Northeast Shofner Prospect
Rouse Prospect
Russell Prospect Mine
Shofner-Weaver Prospect
Southwest Shofner Prospect
Tolliver South Prospect
Western Braden Prospect
Western H. M. Graves Prospect
Western Williams Prospect
Woods Prospect

Latitude: 36°23'37"N
Longitude: 83°48'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.393611111111,-83.814166666667

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: 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: 
AragoniteCalciteDiasporeNoneNot in a structural groupPyriteRocksaltSphaleriteWurtzite

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Dolomite  (*)Galena  (*)Goethite  (*)
Greenockite  (*)Hemimorphite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Smithsonite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)126924727770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)2269247,2692574979
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)214269243,269244,269245,269247,269251,269255,269256,269257,269258,269259,269261,269263,269266,2692679895
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS10269246,269247,269255,269257,269258,269260,269261,269263,269264,26926724243
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)12692437437
Greenockite  (*)WurtziteCdS2269247,269257717
Hemimorphite  (*)Not in a structural groupZn4(Si2O7)(OH)2·H2O3269243,269247,2692571689
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS28269243,269247,269253,269257,269258,269262,269263,26926739462
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)7269243,269244,269247,269257,269258,269260,2692642473
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS12269243,269245,269246,269247,269251,269252,269256,269257,269258,269259,269263,26926421482



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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