Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Moore Hill, Crittenden Co., Kentucky, USA

mindat Locality ID: 214096
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-214096.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Moore Hill, Crittenden Co., Kentucky, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
A.Tinsley
Carrie Butler Occurrence
Eagle-Lowery Prospect
Eagle-Watson
Eagle-Wring
F. Tyner Prospect
H. Watson (Eli Brown; Two Brothers)
Hicks (Eli Brown)
J. Tyner Occurrence (Eli Brown)
La Rue (Riggs)
Ludwig Prospect
McCune
Moorehill Group
Oxley Prospect
Sisco Occurrence
Stevens Occurrence (Howard And Frazer)
Summers And Conyer Property (Summers Mine)
Tightwad (L. E. Waddell)
Watson Occurrence
Wring Prospect

Latitude: 37°16'27"N
Longitude: 88°11'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.274166666667,-88.189722222222

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.

Calcite	Fluorite	None	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

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 O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Fluorite None Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	215679,215689,215692	27770
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	5	215679,215680,215685,215689,215692	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	215679,215685,215689	24243
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	215691	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	215679,215680,215685,215689,215692	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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