Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Ellijay, Gilmer Co., Georgia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 213175
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-213175.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ellijay, Gilmer Co., Georgia, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Ellijay Mining Company Property
Haley Property
J. H. Fowler Farm
Unnamed (10083954)
Unnamed (10100412)
Unnamed Rutile Locality

Latitude: 34°41'50"N
Longitude: 84°27'31"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.697222222222,-84.458611111111

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.

Clay	Diaspore	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rutile	Wavellite

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 Fe H K O P Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Diaspore Mica None Not in a structural group Quartz Rutile Wavellite

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Goethite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Wavellite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	201872,201873	7437
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	201877	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	201872	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	201877	5614
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	201874	1516
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	1	201872	374

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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