Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Hardin Co., Kentucky, USA

mindat Locality ID: 213867
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-213867.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hardin Co., Kentucky, USA": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Big Clifty Sandstone Exposure Prospect
Cen-Ken Stone Plant No. 2 (Waters Quarry; Inc.)
Eastview Abandoned Sandstone Pit
Fort Knox Quarry (Facilities Engineering)
Highway Clay Bed Prospect
Highway Road Cut On US31W Near Muldraugh
KY 313 Road Cuts
No. 1 Fort Knox Quarry (Osborne Brothers Quarry Company)
No. 3 Quarry (Osborne Brothers Quarry Company; Stephensburg No. 2 Quarry And Plant)
Radcliff
Railroad Overpass Sandstone Outcrop Prospect
Rolling Fork Shale Prospect
Sandstone Roadcut Prospect
Tiptop
Upton Quarry
Vulcan Materials Company Colesburg Quarry (Fort Knox Quarry)
Vulcan Materials Company Elizabethtown Quarry
Vulcan Materials Company Stephensburg Quarry

Latitude: 37°40'39"N
Longitude: 85°55'27"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.6775,-85.924166666667

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	Diaspore	Fluorite	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sulphur

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 F Fe H Mg O S Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Diaspore Fluorite Gypsum None Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt
Sulphur

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Magnesite ()*	Periclase ()*
Quartz ()*	Strontianite ()*	Sulphur ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	3	215874,215883,215884	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	215873	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	215873,215874,215877,215885	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	2	215874,215877	1252
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	215873	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	215873,215877	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	215873	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	4	215873,215874,215883,215884	6890
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	1	215881	1487
Periclase ()*	Rocksalt	MgO	1	215881	114
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	215873,215874,215877	61156
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	1	215877	589
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	215877	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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