Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Vernon Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA

mindat Locality ID: 23821
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-23821.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Vernon Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Bird Mine
Canistear Mine
De Kay Farm Explorations
Hunt Tract Explorations
Layton Mine
McAfee
Sullivan Mine (Sulvan Mine)
Vernon
Welling Mine (Ten Eyck's Exploration)

Latitude: 41°10'15"N
Longitude: 74°28'46"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.170833333333,-74.479444444444

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	Apatite	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Fluorite	Humite
Hydrotalcite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite
Spinel	Talc	Titanite	Zircon

Calcite ()*	Diopside ()*	Edenite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferro-hornblende ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*
Hydrotalcite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Nontronite ()*
Norbergite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*
Sillimanite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*	Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*
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 F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O P S Si Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Diaspore Epidote Fluorite Humite
Hydrotalcite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite
Spinel Talc Titanite Zircon

26 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)	1	243896	27770
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	243896	4135
Edenite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂Mg₅(Si₇Al)O₂₂(OH)₂	1	243898	160
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	243898,243910	8173
Ferro-hornblende ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Fe²⁺₄Al)(Si₇Al)O₂₂(OH)₂	1	243908	271
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	243898	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	243896,243898	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	243899	7437
Graphite ()*	None	C	4	243896,243897,243898,243899	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	243895,243896,243902	14640
Hydrotalcite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Mg₆Al₂CO₃(OH)₁₆(H₂O)₄	1	243905	87
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	243894	1507
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	13	243889,243890,243891,243892,243893,243901,243903,243904,243906,243908,243909,243910,243911	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	243898	5800
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	243899	471
Norbergite ()*	Humite	Mg₃(SiO₄)F₂	1	243896	37
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	2	243896,243898	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6	243890,243893,243895,243898,243901,243903	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	243893,243894,243900,243911	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	243895	6417
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	243900	1516
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	243898	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	243898	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	243910	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	243900	2562
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	243903	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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