Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Zirconia (Tuxedo Station), Henderson Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 236423
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-236423.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Zirconia (Tuxedo Station), Henderson Co., North Carolina, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Jones Mine

Latitude: 35°14'0"N
Longitude: 82°24'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.233333333333,-82.4

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.

Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Epidote	Feldspar	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz
Smectite-vermiculite	Titanite	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Epidote ()*	Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Microcline ()*
Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Polycrase-(Y) ()*	Quartz ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Thorite ()*	Titanite ()*	Vermiculite ()*	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 Ca Ce Fe H K Mg Nb O P Si Ta Th Ti U Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Nb O Ti Y

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Epidote Feldspar Kaolinite Mica None Not in a structural group Quartz
Smectite-vermiculite Titanite Zircon

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	250885	2162
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	250885	8173
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	0		414
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	250885	5591
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	250885	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	250885	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	250885	2349
Polycrase-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(Ti,Nb)₂(O,OH)₆	1	250885	121
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	250885	61156
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	250885	1516
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1	250885	1006
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	250885	4899
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	1	250885	652
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	250885	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	250885	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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