Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Meade Co., Kentucky, USA

mindat Locality ID: 214114
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-214114.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Meade Co., Kentucky, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Battletown Mine (Diamond-Kosmos Portland Cement Company; Subsidiary Of The Flintkote Company)
Flaherty-Otter Creek Sandstone Pit
Muldraugh (Fort Knox)
No. 4 Quarry (No. 3 Quarry & Mill; Osborne Brothers Quarry Company)
Riverside Mine
Vulcan Materials Brandenburg Quarry
Wolf Creek Clay Bed Prospect

Latitude: 38°1'13"N
Longitude: 86°13'58"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.020277777778,-86.232777777778

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	Millerite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	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 Ni 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 Millerite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Sulphur

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Millerite ()*	Pyrite ()*
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)	2	216146,216150	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	216144,216145	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6	216141,216144,216145,216146,216147,216150	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	3	216144,216145,216147	1252
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	216144,216145,216150	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	216144,216145	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	216144,216145	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	4	216144,216145,216146,216150	6890
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	2	216144,216145	1066
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	216144,216145	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	216144,216145,216146,216147	61156
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	2	216144,216145	589
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	3	216144,216145,216150	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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