Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Dresden Township, Washington Co., New York, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24313
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24313.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dresden Township, Washington Co., New York, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Champlain Graphite Company Mine
Dresden
Hooper Brothers Mine
Whitehall

Latitude: 43°33'59"N
Longitude: 73°27'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.566388888889,-73.45

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	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Feldspar	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Scheelite

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 Fe H K Na O S Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca O W

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Feldspar Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Scheelite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Albite ()*	Calcite ()*	Epidote ()*	Graphite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Zoisite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	248936	8803
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	248936	27770
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	248942	8173
Graphite ()*	None	C	4	248936,248938,248939,248941	2812
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	248936	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	248936,248939,248941	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	248942	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	0		4894
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	248939	1516
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	248941	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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