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Locality Name:
Miami-Dade Co., Florida, USA


mindat Locality ID: 17418
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-17418.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Miami-Dade Co., Florida, USA": 54
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 52

Number of Child Localities: 52
Child Localities:
21st Century Rock And Fill - Number 11
Airport Pit (Dunn Airport Pit)
American Rock; Inc. - The Pit
Biscayne National Park
Black Velvet Top Soil
Capelletti Brothers - Number 13
Coral Cables Quarry
Dade County Quarry & Cement Plant
Dade Pit No. 1
Dade Pit No. 7
Eureka Pit
F. E. C. Quarry
Florida Rock & Sand Company (Cutler Pit Quarry)
Florida Rock And Sand - Card Sound
Florida Rock Industries - Miami Quarry
Florida Rock Industries Inc. (Golden Prince Quarry)
General Fill Pit No. 1
Indian Lakes Pit
Kendall Limestone Quarry
Lehigh Lakes
Limerock Quarry (Sweetwater; Quarry)
Lowell S. Dunn - 58th Street Quarry
LSF Pennsuco Aggregates
M And W Pit
Medley
Miami Mine
Naranja Limestone Quarry
North Pit 9 + 10 + 11
Oolite Rock Limestone Quarry
Perrine Limestone Quarry
Pit 12
Pit Number 1
Red Road Limestone Quarry
Richmond Quarry
Rinker Materials - Fec Quarry
Rinker Materials - Krome Quarry
Rinker Materials - Rinker Lake Quarry
Rinker Materials - SCL Quarry
Ronlee - Ronlee's Quarry
South Pit 9 + 10 + 11
Sunshine Rock - Sunshine Rock Quarry
Tarmac-Florida - Coral Aggergates Quarry
Tarmac-Florida - Pennsuco Quarry
The Redland Company Inc. (Turkey Point; Florida Power And Light)
The Redland Company; Inc. - Kesgate
Tropical Limestone Pit
Union Rock And Sand - Number 1 Quarry
Vulcan Materials - 41st Street Quarry (Streetwater Quarry)
Vulcan Materials - Medley Quarry
West Dade Rock Pit
Westwind Contracting - Saw Grass Quarry
White Rock Quarries - White Rock Quarry

Latitude: 25°47'4"N
Longitude: 80°23'15"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 25.784444444444,-80.3875

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 H O 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca H O 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteCalciteNoneOxalate

3 IMA Minerals at location:
Aragonite  (*)Calcite  (*)Weddellite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)2200103,2001043250
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)027770
Weddellite  (*)OxalateCa(C2O4)·2H2O032



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