Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Buffalo Cove, Fentress Co., Tennessee, USA

mindat Locality ID: 241762
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-241762.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Buffalo Cove, Fentress Co., Tennessee, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Buffalo Cave
Buffalo Cove Quarry (Joe Young Quarry)
Unnamed Fluorite Occurrence
Young Mine

Latitude: 36°22'48"N
Longitude: 84°58'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.38,-84.973888888889

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.

Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Fluorite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Sphalerite

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: C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg N O S Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Fe O S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Fluorite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Sphalerite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Anhydrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Niter ()*	Nitrocalcite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	0		1588
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	267078,267079	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	2	267077,267079	1252
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	267078	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	267078,267079	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	267078	9617
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	1	267076	181
Nitrocalcite ()*	None	Ca(NO₃)₂·4H₂O	1	267076	46
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	0		21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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