Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Frederick Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24416
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24416.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Frederick Co., Virginia, USA": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Cedar Creek Valley Mining District
Clear Brook Quarry (W. S. Frey Company Inc.)
Commercial Quarry
Gore
Hayfield
Lebanon Church
Meadow Mills Quarry
Middletown Quarry (Flintkote Company; Div. Of M. J. Grove Lime Company)
Old Henry Kerns Place Prospect
Quarry (MRDS - 10276327)
Ridgeley Sandstone
Stephens City Quarry (M. J. Grove Lime Company; Div. Of Flintkote Company)
T. J. Orndorff Deposits
Vaucluse Quarry
Winchester Quarry (Stuart M. Perry Inc.)

Latitude: 39°7'40"N
Longitude: 78°16'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.127777777778,-78.273333333333

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.

Alunite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Coronadite	Fluorite	Gypsum	Hexahydrite	Mica	None
Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rutile	Sphalerite	Wavellite

Anhydrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Crandallite ()*	Cryptomelane ()*
Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Goyazite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hexahydrite ()*
Manganite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Wavellite ()*

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 H K Mg Mn O P S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Baryte Calcite Clay Coronadite Fluorite Gypsum Hexahydrite Mica None
Not in a structural group Quartz Rutile Sphalerite Wavellite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

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)	2	281050,281051	1588
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	281049,281050,281062	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	2	281050,281051	1252
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	1	281048	310
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	1	281058	599
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	281062	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	281062	9617
Goyazite ()*	Alunite	SrAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	1	281048	173
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	281050,281051	6890
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	1	281049	251
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	1	281058	770
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	281062	17380
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	6	281040,281041,281042,281043,281044,281058	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	281049,281050,281062	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	281055	21482
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	3	281041,281048,281053	374

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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