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Locality Name:
Oglethorpe Co., Georgia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 23469
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-23469.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Oglethorpe Co., Georgia, USA": 42
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 40

Number of Child Localities: 34
Child Localities:
Bairdstown
Bennie And Harvey Quarry
Briarpatch Quarry
Coggins Millstone Quarry
Dixie Blue Quarry
Galaxy Blue Quarry
Galaxy Satin Blue Quarry
Georgia Carolina Quarry
Gold Eagle Quarry (Midnight Blue Quarry)
Grimes Brothers Quarry No. 2
Grimes Brothers Quarry No. 3
Grimes Quarry
Harpers Quarry (Enterprise Quarry)
Heritage Quarry
Kantala Quarry
Keystone Blue Quarry Keystone Gr
Kim-Mark Quarry
Lexington
Locke Quarry (S & S Quarry)
Millstone Quarry
Monarch Quarry (Echols Hill Quarry)
Morgan Mine (Arnold Prospect)
New Blue Quarry
Oglethorpe Quarry
Oglethorpe Quarry Dirienzo
Oglethorpe Quarry Star Granite
Peppers Quarry
Plantation Quarry
Sapphire Blue Quarry
Service Quarry
Smithonia Meteorite
Veri Best Quarry (Regency Quarry)
Very Best Blue Quarry
Worley Monument Quarry

Latitude: 33°57'4"N
Longitude: 83°1'45"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.951111111111,-83.029166666667

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	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Fluorite	Iron	Malachite	Mica	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrophyllite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sulphur	Zircon

Calcite ()*	Carlsbergite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Iron ()*	Laumontite ()*
Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sillimanite ()*	Sulphur ()*	Taenite ()*	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 Au C Ca Cr Cu F Fe H K N Ni O S Si Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al H K O S Si Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Fluorite Iron Malachite Mica None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrophyllite Quartz Rocksalt Sulphur Zircon

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	202704,202711	27770
Carlsbergite ()*	Rocksalt	CrN	1	202724	26
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	202708,202711	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	202711	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	202711	2970
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	202704	9617
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	202687,202688,202689,202715	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	202710	14640
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	202724	1089
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	202704	1271
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	202688,202708,202711	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	0		17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	202704,202708,202711	39462
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	202707	771
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	202704,202708,202709,202710,202711	61156
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	0		1516
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	0		2045
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	202724	703
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	0		5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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