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Locality Name:
South Florida Phosphate District, Hardee Co., Florida, USA


mindat Locality ID: 244871
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-244871.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "South Florida Phosphate District, Hardee Co., Florida, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Acrefoot Johnson Prospect (Limestone Creek)
B. H. Griffin Prospect (Zolfo Area)
C. F. Hardee Mine (C F Hardee Complex; Hardee Mine)
C. F. Industries - South Pasture
CF Garwood Mine
D. E. Carlton Prospect
Dot Arcadia - Gardner Mine
Farmland Hardee Mine (Hickory Creek Mine; Limestoen Land Comp. Mine; Duval Corp. Mine)
Freeport Area Small Ownerships Prospect (Leffie Carlton - Overlook Grove)
Gardinier South Hardee Deposit (South Hardee)
Hardee County Unknown Ownerships Occurrence (MRDS - 10215722)
Hardee West Prospect
Horse Creek Prospect
Iori/Waters Tract Prospect (South Fort Green; Durrance-Waters-Wright Estate; Durrance/Waters Tract)
Mississippi Chemical Corp - Hardee Prospect (Miss. Chem. Corp. Hardee; Hardee Mine; McC Hardee)
Mobil Area Prospect (South Fort Meade Mine)
Olliff Option Prospect
Sharp Property (Southwest Hardee Northwest Desoto)
Zolfo / Rhone-Poulenc Chemicals Prospect (Zolfo / Stauffer)
Zolfo Springs Area Small Ownerships Prospect

Latitude: 27°28'33"N
Longitude: 81°53'43"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 27.475833333333,-81.895277777778
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: Fe H Mn O P 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
DiasporeNoneRockbridgeiteStrunziteVivianite

5 IMA Minerals at location:
Ferrostrunzite  (*)Goethite  (*)Rockbridgeite  (*)Strunzite  (*)Vivianite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Ferrostrunzite  (*)StrunziteFe2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·6H2O119979619
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)11997967437
Rockbridgeite  (*)Rockbridgeite(Fe2+0.5Fe3+0.5)2Fe3+3(PO4)3(OH)51199796206
Strunzite  (*)StrunziteMn2+Fe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2·6H2O119979698
Vivianite  (*)VivianiteFe2+3(PO4)2·8H2O1199796636


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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