Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
East Stone Gap, Wise Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24503
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24503.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "East Stone Gap, Wise Co., Virginia, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Belton Quarry
East Stone Gap Quarry
Roadcut(1)
Roadcut(2)
Roadcut(3)
Roadcut(4)
Roadcut(5)

Latitude: 36°51'55"N
Longitude: 82°44'46"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.865277777778,-82.746111111111

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Fluorite	Hexahydrite	None	Pyrite	Sphalerite	Starkeyite

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 F Fe H Mg O S Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Fluorite Hexahydrite None Pyrite Sphalerite Starkeyite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Hexahydrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Starkeyite ()*	Strontianite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	283250,283251,283252,283254,283256	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	6	283250,283251,283253,283254,283255,283256	1252
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	6	283250,283251,283252,283254,283255,283256	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	283251	9617
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	1	283251	251
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	283251	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	0		21482
Starkeyite ()*	Starkeyite	Mg(SO₄)·4H₂O	1	283251	79
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	5	283250,283251,283252,283254,283255	589

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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