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Locality Name:
Bumpass Cove District, Washington Co., Tennessee, USA


mindat Locality ID: 130391
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-130391.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bumpass Cove District, Washington Co., Tennessee, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Casey Hollow Manganese Mine
East Baptist Hollow Deposit
Fowler Mine
Jackson Mine
Klondyke Iron Mine
Little Polly Hollow Zinc Mine
Lower Peedee Iron Mine
No. 14 Mine
Polly Hollow Iron Mine
Rock Quarry Hollow (Washington County Highway Department)
Rock Quarry Hollow Manganese Mine
Rock Quarry Hollow Zinc Mine
Sugar Hollow And No. 10 Iron Mine
Tucker Iron Mine
Upper Peedee Iron Mine
West Ore Bank Mine

Latitude: 36°9'28"N
Longitude: 82°29'20"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.157777777778,-82.488888888889

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 Fe H Mg Mn O Pb S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteCalciteNoneNot in a structural groupPyriteQuartzRocksaltRutileSphalerite

9 IMA Minerals at location:
Cerussite  (*)Dolomite  (*)Galena  (*)Hemimorphite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Pyrolusite  (*)Quartz  (*)Smithsonite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)2269300,2693014979
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)29269297,269300,269301,269302,269303,269305,269308,269310,2693119895
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2269299,26930024243
Hemimorphite  (*)Not in a structural groupZn4(Si2O7)(OH)2·H2O6269300,269301,269302,269308,269309,2693101689
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS25269300,269301,269303,269309,26931039462
Pyrolusite  (*)RutileMnO212693073106
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22269307,26930961156
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)2269300,2693082473
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS5269299,269300,269301,269309,26931021482



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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