Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cranston, Providence Co., Rhode Island, USA

mindat Locality ID: 23911
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-23911.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cranston, Providence Co., Rhode Island, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Arlington
Cranston Graphite Mine (Budlong Coal Mine; Sockanosset Coal Mine)
G. L. Gross Mine
Hopkins Iron Mine
Howard Prospect
Interstate Highway 295 Road Cut
Keating Quarry (Cranston Quarry; Tilcon Capaldi Quarry; Gammino Quarry)
Oaklawn

Latitude: 41°46'4"N
Longitude: 71°27'36"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.767777777778,-71.46

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.

Acanthite	Allophane	Amphibole	Apatite	Aragonite	Axinite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite
Chloritoid	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite
Marcasite	Melanterite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite
Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc	Titanite

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Anatase ()*	Anglesite ()*	Axinite-(Fe) ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Clinochlore ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Graphite ()*	Hematite ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrocerussite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Melanterite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Ottrélite ()*
Phosgenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stolzite ()*	Talc ()*	Titanite ()*
Wulfenite ()*

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: Ag Al B C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na O P Pb S Si Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Amphibole Apatite Aragonite Axinite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite
Chloritoid Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Fluorite
Marcasite Melanterite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite
Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Talc Titanite

41 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	263460	2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	4	263455,263456,263461,263463	3419
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	263460	2162
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	263460	2734
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Fe²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	1	263461	260
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	263460	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	263461,263463	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	263460	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	263460,263461	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	263460	3531
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	4	263455,263456,263461	1756
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	263460	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	263460	4165
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	263461	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2	263460,263461	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	263461	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	263460,263461	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	263460	7437
Graphite ()*	None	C	4	263455,263456,263457,263459	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	5	263455,263456,263458,263459,263461	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	263460	1689
Hydrocerussite ()*	None	Pb₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	263460	201
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	263461	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	263461	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	263456	5674
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	2	263455,263456	915
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	263460	5800
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	263460	1508
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	263461	2349
Ottrélite ()*	Chloritoid	Mn²⁺Al₂O(SiO₄)(OH)₂	1	263455	59
Phosgenite ()*	None	Pb₂(CO₃)Cl₂	1	263460	142
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	263455,263460,263461	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	263460	1725
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	263460	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	263455,263456,263457,263460,263461	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	263460	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	263461	21482
Stolzite ()*	Scheelite	Pb(WO₄)	1	263460	156
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	3	263455,263461,263463	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	263461	4899
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	263460	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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