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Locality Name:
Buncombe Co., North Carolina, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 460
Youngest recorded age at locality: 460

mindat Locality ID: 14182
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14182.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Buncombe Co., North Carolina, USA": 136
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 125

Number of Child Localities: 121
Child Localities:
Alexander Mine
Asheville
Asheville Meteorite
Austin Prospect
Balsam Gap Mine
Bassett Prospect
Beach Glen
Bee Tree Pit
Big Cove Mine
Black Mountain
Black Mountain Meteorite
Black Mountain Prospect
Blankenship Prospect
Brown Prospect
Brushy Mountain Mine
Brushy Ridge Prospect
Buff Clay Mine
Buncombe District
Burco Mine
Burnet Mine
Burton Prospect
Cane Creek-Brush Creek Occurrence
Canton-Democrat
Capp Prospects
Cathey Prospect
Cedar Cliff Prospect
Chestnut Cove Mine
Christ School Quarry
Coggins Home Mine
Corner Rock Mine
Corrihier Prospect
Creasmen Prospect
Dallas L. Riddle Prospect
Democrat
E. W. Davis Prospect
Enka Quarry
Frady Prospect
Gravelly Creek Quarry
Graveyard Prospect
Groves Lake Quarry A
Groves Lake Quarry B
Hardin Prospect
Hattie Bell Underwood Prospect
Hensley Prospect
Hipps Prospect
Hurst Prospect
Jeter Wilson Prospect
Juno Mine
Knox Prospect
Kuykendall Prospect
L.L. West Prospect
Lake Eden Mine
Leicester
Leicester Chromite Prospect
Little Butte Gap Prospect
Long Prospect
Longs Branch Prospect
Lora Lee Matthews Prospect
Lovin Feldspar Mine
Lum Sprouse Mine
McCoy Cove Prospect
McCracken Prospect
McDowell Prospect
McLarty Prospect
Mica Prospect (MRDS - 10126577)
Mills Prospect
Mine No. 1
Mine No. 2
Mitzes Mine
Moland-Drysdale Brick Corporation Clay Pit
Montie O. Kelly Prospect
Montreat
Morgan Hill Chromite Prospect (Morgan Hill Church Prospect)
Morris Prospect
Moser Cove Prospect
Mountain Meadow Prospect
N. C. Dept. Of Transportation Stone Quarry
New Balsam Gap Mine
Old Pumphouse Deposit
Patton Cove Mine
Pink Fox Prospect
Pinner Creek Quarry
Pisgah National Forest
Proffit Prospect
Quarry (MRDS - 10175084)
Revis Prospect
Rice Heirs Prospect
Richland Prospect
Riverview Prospect
Robinson Creek Quarry
Rock Stand Mine
Sheep Knob Prospect
Shoat Prospect
Shoote Branch Mine
Shortz Prospect
Sluder Mine
Smathers Prospect
Southern Nofat Mountain
Stevens Mine
Stines Prospect
Stocksville Mine
Sunset Drive Prospect
Swain (Swan) Prospect
Swannana
Swannanoa Mica Mine
Swannanoa River Occurrence
Thomas Mine (Balsam Gap Kyanite Location; Parkway Kyanite Location)
Tipton Mine
Titanium Occurrence (MRDS - 10026482)
Unnamed Allanite Occurrence (MRDS - 10026484)
Unnamed Feldspar Sample Locality Occurrence (MRDS - 10026311)
Unnamed Magnetite Occurrence (MRDS - 10026456)
Unnamed Marble Occurrence (MRDS - 10026295)
Unnamed Sample Locality & Nearby Trench Occurrence (Part Of Democrat Olivine Body Dunite; MRDS - 10026478)
Vermiculite Prospect (MRDS - 10224216)
W.T. Sharp Mine
Weaver Mine
Weaverville
Western North Carolina Nickel Laterite Occurrence (TES)
White Prospect
Wilson Road Occurrence

Latitude: 35°37'9"N
Longitude: 82°28'44"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.619166666667,-82.478888888889

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.

Amphibole	Apatite	Baryte	Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chloritoid	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite
Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	Iron	Kaolinite	Löllingite	Mica
Monazite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt
Rutile	Serpentine	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Talc	Titanite	Tourmaline	Zircon

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: Al As Au B Ba Be C Ca Ce Cr Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn N Na Nb Ni O P Pb S Si Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Au Ba C Fe H Mg Nb Ni O Pb S Si Y

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Baryte Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite Chloritoid Clay Clinozoisite Columbite
Copper Corundum Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Garnet Iron Kaolinite Löllingite Mica
Monazite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Olivine Pentlandite Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt
Rutile Serpentine Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Talc Titanite Tourmaline Zircon

64 IMA Minerals at location:

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Anorthite ()*	Antigorite ()*
Augite ()*	Baryte ()*	Beryl ()*	Calcite ()*	Carlsbergite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chloritoid ()*	Chromite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Clinozoisite ()*
Corundum ()*	Cummingtonite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dravite ()*	Enstatite ()*
Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Galena ()*	Gedrite ()*
Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Grossular ()*	Hematite ()*
Hercynite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kyanite ()*
Löllingite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*
Muscovite ()*	Népouite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrope ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Schorl ()*	Schreibersite ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spessartine ()*
Spinel ()*	Taenite ()*	Talc ()*	Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*
Troilite ()*	Vermiculite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			1	249542	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)			7	249542,249545,249557,249582,249635,249656,249661	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			3	249541,249542,249661	2353
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)			1	249661	1036
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	249603	708
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆			1	249673	2060
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	460	460	0		11547
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈			3	249545,249552,249659	4286
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	249542	27770
Carlsbergite ()*	Rocksalt	CrN			1	249553	26
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			2	249542,249661	27198
Chloritoid ()*	Chloritoid	Fe²⁺Al₂O(SiO₄)(OH)₂	460	460	0		376
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	460	460	9	249569,249570,249582,249583,249603,249604,249624,249668,249673	3902
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	249582	951
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	249622	1025
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	460	460	5	249545,249551,249569,249623,249660	1797
Cummingtonite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			1	249661	327
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆			1	249548	4135
Dravite ()*	Tourmaline	NaMg₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)			2	249656,249661	648
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆			2	249541,249673	944
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	249664	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F			3	249635,249656,249661	2740
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	460	460	5	249569,249570,249582,249583,249673	1188
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	460	460	0		24243
Gedrite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂(Mg₃Al₂)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂			1	249661	178
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	249542	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	460	460	0		30554
Graphite ()*	None	C			3	249552,249553,249623	2812
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			1	249548	1544
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			1	249542	14640
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄			1	249661	407
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃			4	249542,249661,249663,249675	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe			2	249543,249553	1089
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			3	249557,249577,249641	5591
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄			8	249542,249545,249551,249623,249635,249656,249660,249661	1507
Löllingite ()*	Löllingite	FeAs₂			1	249634	762
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	460	460	0		1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			5	249542,249582,249603,249666,249675	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			2	249542,249582	4924
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)			1	249635	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			71	249540,249542,249544,249545,249546,249550,249554,249555,249556,249557,249561,249563,249564,249565,249566,249572,249573,249574,249575,249576,249577,249578,249579,249582,249584,249586,249588,249591,249592,249593,249594,249595,249596,249598,249599,249601,249605,249606,249607,249608,249611,249612,249613,249616,249619,249621,249625,249626,249627,249629,249630,249631,249632,249635,249636,249638,249639,249641,249643,249645,249647,249648,249649,249652,249655,249656,249659,249661,249662,249670,249671	17380
Népouite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Ni₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	460	460	0		66
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	460	460	0		633
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			2	249557,249565	2349
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈			2	249542,249661	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			1	249542	39462
Pyrope ()*	Garnet	Mg₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			1	249581	341
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			2	249542,249661	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	460	460	66	249540,249542,249544,249546,249550,249552,249554,249555,249557,249561,249563,249564,249566,249572,249573,249574,249576,249577,249578,249579,249582,249583,249584,249586,249591,249592,249593,249594,249595,249596,249599,249601,249603,249605,249606,249607,249611,249612,249613,249619,249621,249622,249623,249624,249625,249626,249629,249630,249631,249632,249635,249636,249638,249641,249643,249645,249647,249648,249649,249652,249656,249659,249661,249662,249670,249671	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			2	249542,249661	5614
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	YFe³⁺Nb₂O₈	460	460	0		353
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)			4	249552,249635,249656,249661	2705
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P			2	249543,249553	374
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅			2	249542,249661	1516
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			3	249635,249656,249661	1214
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄			2	249582,249661	1934
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)			1	249553	703
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	460	460	7	249569,249582,249583,249597,249603,249624,249668	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O			1	249542	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			1	249582	2562
Troilite ()*	None	FeS			1	249553	1044
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	460	460	9	249582,249583,249601,249617,249618,249624,249658,249662,249669	652
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)			2	249635,249661	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)			5	249542,249635,249656,249661,249675	5251

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	podchrome-01099	460	460	Ordovician										Cr	100109	Democrat Olivine Deposit (Democrat Chromite Prospect; T Mine; Democrat Chromite Placer Deposit; ITS; Ivy River-Democrat Chromite Deposit), Canton-Democrat, Buncombe Co., North Carolina, USA	Democrat	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157
	podchrome-01101	460	460	Ordovician										Cr	100121	Morgan Hill Chromite Prospect (Morgan Hill Church Prospect), Buncombe Co., North Carolina, USA	Morgan Hill	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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