Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Celo, Spruce Pine District, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24498
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24498.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Celo, Spruce Pine District, Yancey Co., North Carolina, USA": 72
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 70

Number of Child Localities: 64
Child Localities:
Alley Cut Mine
Bailey Mountain
Bailey Mt.
Blackjack Ridge Mine
Blalock Rock Mine
Branch Mine
Brown Creek Mine
Burton Mine (Peterson Mine)
Cecil Burgin Mine
Celo Mine (Mas-Celo)
Celo Ridge Corundum Site
Champion Mine
Charlie Young Mine
Cora Mine
Corb Robinson Mine (Old Flukens Mine)
Creson Mine
Dink Rock Mine
Ed Banner Mine
Edge Mine
Elmyra Gibbs Mine
Fawn Knob Mine (Hall And Young Mine)
Floyd Thomas Mine
Flukens Ridge Mine
Gaston McDowell Mine
Gibb's Mine
Gilley Mine
Gurley Mine
Hall Mine
Henry Grindstaff No. 1 Mine
Henry Grindstaff No. 2 Mine
Henry Grindstaff No. 3 Mine
Henry Grindstaff No. 4 Mine
Hillard Mine
Ike Hensley Mine
Irby Cut Mine
Joe Goodin Mine
John Edge Mine
Lighted Rock Mine
Little Gibbs Mine
Mas-Celo
McIntosh Mine
Micaville
Old Gibbs Mine (Washout; Gibbs Clay Mine; Bland)
Poll Hill Mine
Red Mine (Bennett Mine)
Robinson Jr. Prospect
Rock Mine
Sally Knob Mine
Shakerig Mine
Shelby Hall Mine
Shuford Mine (Wiley Blevins Mine)
Silvers Mine
Sleepy Hollow Mine
Spider Mine
Thad Young Mine
Washburn Mine (James Gouge Mine)
Water Mine
Weld Prospect
Whim Mine
White Mine
Whiteface Mine
Willis Rock Mine
Wilt Young Mine
Woody's Ridge Mine

Latitude: 35°52'1"N
Longitude: 82°10'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.866944444444,-82.180277777778

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.

Amorphous	Amphibole	Apatite	Autunite	Beryl	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Corundum
Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Kaolinite	Mica	Monazite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Pyroxene	Quartz	Schoepite	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Talc	Wölsendorfite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Autunite ()*	Becquerelite ()*	Beryl ()*
Calcite ()*	Chromite ()*	Clarkeite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Corundum ()*
Enstatite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fourmarierite ()*	Graphite ()*
Halloysite-7Å ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kasolite ()*	Kyanite ()*
Microcline ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Spessartine ()*	Talc ()*	Torbernite ()*
Tremolite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*	Vermiculite ()*	Wölsendorfite ()*
Zircon ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 Be C Ca Ce Cr Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Na Nb O P Pb S Si U Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Amphibole Apatite Autunite Beryl Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Corundum
Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Kaolinite Mica Monazite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Pyroxene Quartz Schoepite Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Talc Wölsendorfite Zircon

37 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	5	253268,253282,253286,253287,253289	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	5	253246,253286,253287,253289,253290	2353
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	2	253286,253289	1272
Becquerelite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₆O₄(OH)₆·8H₂O	1	253286	92
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	2	253267,253290	4286
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	253286,253294	27770
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	253289	3902
Clarkeite ()*	None	Na(UO₂)O(OH)·nH₂O	1	253286	18
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	253286	1025
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	253254	1797
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	253289	944
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	12	253246,253255,253256,253260,253263,253268,253272,253278,253286,253290,253294,253304	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	3	253253,253288,253289	2740
Fourmarierite ()*	Schoepite	Pb_1-xO_3-2x(UO₂)₄(OH)_4+2x·4H₂O	1	253286	61
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	253253	2812
Halloysite-7Å ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	253285	52
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	253246	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	10	253264,253265,253269,253276,253285,253293,253296,253306,253307,253313	5591
Kasolite ()*	None	Pb(UO₂)(SiO₄)·H₂O	1	253286	198
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	253253	1507
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2	253246,253287	4924
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	253253	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	63	253243,253246,253247,253248,253249,253250,253251,253252,253253,253255,253256,253257,253258,253259,253260,253261,253262,253263,253264,253265,253266,253267,253268,253269,253270,253271,253272,253273,253274,253275,253276,253277,253278,253279,253280,253281,253284,253286,253287,253289,253290,253293,253294,253295,253296,253297,253298,253299,253300,253301,253302,253303,253304,253305,253306,253307,253308,253309,253310,253311,253312,253313,253314	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	253286	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	253289,253295,253314	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	60	253243,253246,253247,253249,253250,253251,253252,253255,253256,253257,253258,253259,253260,253261,253262,253263,253264,253265,253266,253267,253268,253269,253270,253271,253272,253273,253274,253275,253276,253277,253278,253279,253280,253281,253284,253286,253287,253289,253290,253293,253294,253295,253296,253297,253298,253299,253300,253301,253302,253303,253304,253305,253306,253307,253308,253309,253311,253312,253313,253314	61156
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	YFe³⁺Nb₂O₈	2	253292,253298	353
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	253289	1214
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	253289	3337
Torbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O	1	253286	1059
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	253289	2562
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	253286	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	253286	890
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	10	253246,253247,253249,253256,253262,253266,253278,253290,253293,253295	652
Wölsendorfite ()*	Wölsendorfite	Pb₇(UO₂)₁₄O₁₉(OH)₄·12H₂O	1	253286	43
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	253286	5251
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	8	253256,253268,253272,253280,253288,253298,253304,253314	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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