Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island, USA

mindat Locality ID: 22811
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-22811.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Bottinelli Granite Quarry
Bradford
Calder & Carnie Granite Quarry
Catto Granite Quarry
Chapman Granite Quarry
Dixon Granite Quarry
Frazer Granite Quarry
Gencarelli Granite Quarry
New England Granite Quarry
Redstone Granite Quarry (Cherenzia Quarry)
Smalley Quarry
Smith Granite Quarry
Smith North Granite Quarry
State Route 1 Bypass
State Route 78
Weekapaug
White Rock Quarry

Latitude: 41°23'15"N
Longitude: 71°48'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.3875,-71.806388888889

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.

Allanite	Amphibole	Analcime	Apatite	Aragonite	Bastnäsite	Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite
Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Heulandite	Kaolinite	Malachite
Mica	Molybdenite	Monazite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile
Spinel	Stilbite	Titanite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Analcime ()*	Anatase ()*	Aragonite ()*
Augite ()*	Bastnäsite-(Ce) ()*	Beryl ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Hematite ()*	Heulandite-Ca ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Kaersutite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Microcline ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Spinel ()*
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Thorianite ()*	Titanite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*
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 Be C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na Nb O P S Si Th Ti U Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al H Na O P Si Y

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Amphibole Analcime Apatite Aragonite Bastnäsite Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite
Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Heulandite Kaolinite Malachite
Mica Molybdenite Monazite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile
Spinel Stilbite Titanite Zircon

41 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	13	263612,263613,263614,263615,263616,263617,263618,263619,263620,263622,263623,263625,263629	8803
Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	5	263613,263614,263618,263622,263624	706
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	263627	1627
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	263629	2162
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	2	263614,263622	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	2	263622,263627	2060
Bastnäsite-(Ce) ()*	Bastnäsite	Ce(CO₃)F	1	263622	304
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	3	263614,263624,263629	4286
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	263629	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	9	263612,263613,263614,263615,263620,263622,263624,263627,263629	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	263629	27198
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	2	263615,263618	1756
Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺Nb₂O₆	1	263622	518
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	6	263610,263612,263615,263620,263622,263624	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	4	263613,263614,263622,263624	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	4	263614,263621,263622,263624	9617
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	263615,263617	14640
Heulandite-Ca ()*	Heulandite	(Ca,Na,K)₅(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·26H₂O	1	263614	246
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	263622	5433
Kaersutite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Mg₃AlTi⁴⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂O₂	1	263627	179
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	263615	5591
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	263614	1271
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	7	263614,263615,263617,263618,263622,263627,263629	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	263629	12537
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	14	263612,263613,263614,263615,263616,263617,263618,263619,263620,263622,263623,263624,263625,263629	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	263622,263624	5800
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	3	263614,263622,263624	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	6	263616,263620,263622,263623,263624,263629	17380
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	0		1236
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	3	263616,263618,263621	2349
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	263627	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	263618,263622,263629	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	10	263610,263613,263614,263616,263619,263622,263623,263624,263626,263629	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	7	263612,263613,263614,263620,263622,263623,263624	5614
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	263627	1934
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Stilbite	NaCa₄(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·28H₂O	1	263612	268
Thorianite ()*	Fluorite	ThO₂	1	263622	236
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2	263614,263620	4899
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	263622	2718
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	0		939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	4	263613,263614,263618,263622	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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