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Locality Name:
Ridgeway, Henry Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 15697
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-15697.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ridgeway, Henry Co., Virginia, USA": 40
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 40

Number of Child Localities: 40
Child Localities:
Abner Cox Prospect
Cole Compton Prospect
Coleman No. 1 Mine
Coleman No. 2 Mine
De Shajo Mine (De Shazo Mine)
Eanes No. 1 Mine
Eanes No. 2 Mine (Grindstaff Mine)
Ernest Penn Prospect
Fields Mine
Garrett No. 1 Prospect
Garrett No. 2 Prospect
Garrett No. 3 Prospect
Garrett No. 4 Mine
Garrett No. 5 Prospect
Garrett No. 6 Prospect
Garrett-Penn Mine (Penn Mine)
Hundley Prospect
John L. Cox Prospect
Jones No. 1 Mine
Jones No. 2 Mine
L. J. Smith Prospect
Lovelace Mine (John Doyle Mine)
Mullins Deposit
Oliver Prospect No. 1
Oliver Prospect No. 2 (Mill Prospect)
Pace Mine
Paul Compton Prospect
Phillips Mine
Price Mine
Remsen Prospect
Ridgeway Mine
Sheffield No. 1 Mine (Fontaine Mine)
Sheffield No. 2 Prospect
Shropshire Prospect
T. W. Carter Prospect
U.S. Highway 220 Roadcut
Unnamed Locality
W. M. Carpenter Prospect
Watkins Prospect
Williams Prospect

Latitude: 36°34'6"N
Longitude: 79°52'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.568333333333,-79.870277777778

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	Beryl	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	Kaolinite	Mica
None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Staurolite	Titanite	Tourmaline	Zircon

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Andradite ()*	Anthophyllite ()*	Beryl ()*
Enstatite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Schorl ()*
Staurolite ()*	Titanite ()*	Vermiculite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*	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 B Be Ca Fe H K Mg Na O P Si Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al B Ca Fe H Mg Na O P Si Y

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Beryl Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Garnet Kaolinite Mica
None Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Staurolite Titanite Tourmaline Zircon

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	3	281557,281561,281566	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		2353
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	0		1534
Anthophyllite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	0		718
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1	281575	4286
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	0		944
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	4	281538,281540,281542,281548	8173
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	5	281538,281540,281542,281548,281572	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	281548,281563	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	4	281538,281540,281542,281548	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	6	281538,281540,281542,281548,281551,281566	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	38	281536,281537,281538,281539,281540,281541,281542,281543,281544,281545,281546,281547,281548,281549,281550,281551,281552,281553,281554,281555,281556,281557,281558,281559,281560,281561,281562,281563,281564,281565,281566,281567,281568,281569,281570,281573,281574,281575	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	281542,281563,281566	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	4	281538,281540,281542,281548	5614
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	0		2705
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	1	281572	978
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4	281538,281540,281542,281548	4899
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	1	281571	652
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	0		939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	4	281538,281540,281542,281548	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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