Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Smith Co., Tennessee, USA

mindat Locality ID: 21062
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-21062.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Smith Co., Tennessee, USA": 39
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 33

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Bridgewater Cave
Carthage
Carthage Stone Company Quarry
Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District
Chestnut Mound
Coleman-Wright Quarry
Deep Well-Sphalerite Occurrence (T.G. Samson; V.P. Sampson No. 1)
Gordonsville
Limestone Quarry (MRDS - 10178533)
Limestone Quarry (MRDS - 10202193)
Outcrop Sample For Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10026208)
Outcrop Sample For Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10091900)
Piper Cave
Rome Quarry (Oldham Limestone Company)
Smith County Highway Department Quarry
South Carthage

Latitude: 36°14'29"N
Longitude: 85°57'52"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.241388888889,-85.964444444444

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Corrensite	Enargite	Fluorite	Iron	Marcasite
None	Perovskite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Wurtzite

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*
Cohenite ()*	Daubréelite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Enargite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Iron ()*	Marcasite ()*	Niter ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rectorite ()*	Schreibersite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Strontianite ()*
Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*	Vaterite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cr Cu F Fe H K Mg N Na Ni O P Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cu Fe S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Corrensite Enargite Fluorite Iron Marcasite
None Perovskite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Wurtzite

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11	269027,269028,269030,269031,269032,269033,269034,269035,269039,269041,269047	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	9	269027,269028,269030,269035,269036,269041,269047,269052,269061	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	3	269030,269052,269061	1252
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	269025	3902
Cohenite ()*	Perovskite	CFe₃	1	269025	77
Daubréelite ()*	Spinel	FeCr₂S₄	1	269025	157
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	7	269027,269030,269035,269036,269038,269041,269052	9895
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	269035	910
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	11	269027,269028,269030,269031,269032,269033,269034,269035,269036,269044,269047	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	8	269030,269031,269032,269033,269034,269035,269041,269047	24243
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	269025	1089
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	269030	5674
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	2	269023,269057	181
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	269030,269041,269052,269061	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	269027,269030,269048,269052	61156
Rectorite ()*	Corrensite Clay	(Na,Ca)Al₄(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·2H₂O	1	269037	49
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	1	269025	374
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	11	269027,269030,269031,269032,269033,269034,269035,269036,269041,269047,269050	21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	269052	589
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	269025	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	269025	1044
Vaterite ()*	None	Ca(CO₃)	1	269030	37

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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