Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Bandana, Mitchell Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 216508
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-216508.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bandana, Mitchell Co., North Carolina, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Dolomitic Marble Occurrence
Robinson Mine
Sinkhole Mine

Latitude: 35°58'0"N
Longitude: 82°10'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.966666666667,-82.166666666667

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.

Apatite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz
Wollastonite

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 Ca F Fe H K Na O P Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar Garnet Mica None Not in a structural group Quartz
Wollastonite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Kyanite ()*
Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Quartz ()*	Wollastonite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	251777,251778	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	251778	2353
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	251778	1025
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	251778	2740
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	2	251776,251778	1507
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	251778	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	251777,251778	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	251778	2349
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	251777,251778	61156
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	251776	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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