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:
Chester Township, Morris Co., New Jersey, USA

mindat Locality ID: 22143
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-22143.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Chester Township, Morris Co., New Jersey, USA": 41
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 37

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Chester
Collis Farm Exploration
Hacklebarney
Hedges Mine
Horton's Station
Hotel Mine
Ironia
Leake Mine (Leak Mine)
Long Hill
Wortman Mine

Latitude: 40°47'9"N
Longitude: 74°40'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.785833333333,-74.670277777778

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.

Amphibole	Corundum	Monazite	None	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Spinel	Staurolite	Zircon

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 C Ca Ce Fe H Mg O P S Si Th Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Corundum Monazite None Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Spinel Staurolite Zircon

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Augite ()*	Ferro-hornblende ()*	Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Staurolite ()*
Thorite ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	243173	2060
Ferro-hornblende ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Fe²⁺₄Al)(Si₇Al)O₂₂(OH)₂	1	243164	271
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	243162	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	243174	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	243184	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	35	243163,243164,243165,243166,243167,243169,243170,243171,243172,243173,243174,243175,243176,243177,243178,243179,243180,243181,243182,243183,243184,243185,243186,243187,243188,243190,243191,243192,243193,243194,243196,243197,243199,243200,243202	14899
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	243184	945
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	7	243170,243173,243174,243177,243180,243186,243194	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	243170,243201	61156
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	1	243184	978
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1	243184	1006
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	243184	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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