Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24519
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24519.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
D.O. Hitner's Mine
Highway Materials Quarry (Old Corson Quarry)
Hitner's Marble Quarry (Hitner's Quarry)
Miquon (Miquon Station; Lafayette; Lafayette Station)

Latitude: 40°8'29"N
Longitude: 75°19'38"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.141388888889,-75.327222222222

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.

Allophane	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Corundum	Diaspore	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Lepidocrocite
Malachite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Zircon

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Graphite ()*
Hematite ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*	Malachite ()*	Microcline ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Na O S Si Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Corundum Diaspore Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Lepidocrocite
Malachite None Pyrite Quartz Rutile Zircon

18 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)	1	263172	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	263172	2353
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	263171	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	263170,263171	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	263171	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	263171	3531
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	263170,263171	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	263171	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	263169	7437
Graphite ()*	None	C	3	263169,263171,263172	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	263169	14640
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	263169	581
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	263171	12537
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	263172	4924
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	263171	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	263169	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	263169,263171	61156
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	263172	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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