Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Fauquier Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24544
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24544.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Fauquier Co., Virginia, USA": 86
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 64

Number of Child Localities: 38
Child Localities:
Airlie
Bealeton
Broad Run
Brocken Hills Pit
Bullun Mountain
Casanova
Catlett
Catlett Quarry
Chester Gap
Culpeper Basin
Elk Run
Fauquier County Barite
Fred E. White Farm Occurrence
Gold-Pyrite Belt
Greenville
Hill Mine No. 2
Hopewell
Kirk Mine
Linden Quarry (Moore Brothers Mine No. 1; Mine Number 1)
Markham
Mine Number 1
Morrisville
Mowers Dimension Stone Quarry
Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province
Oak Shade
Paris
Paris Quarry
Phoenix Mine
Potomac Basin
Remington
Turnbull
Unnamed Quarries (MRDS - 10068148)
Unnamed Shale Pit (MRDS - 10068149)
Warrenton
Waterloo
White Rock
White Rock Spring
White Sulfur Springs

Latitude: 38°43'1"N
Longitude: 77°47'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.716944444444,-77.785277777778

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	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite
Epidote	Gadolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite
Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Talc

Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Babingtonite ()*	Baryte ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Datolite ()*	Epidote ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Platinum ()*	Prehnite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Talc ()*

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: Ag Al As Au B Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg O Pb Pt S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Pt

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite
Epidote Gadolinite Malachite Marcasite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite
Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Talc

31 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	280746	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	280764	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	280724	5509
Babingtonite ()*	Rhodonite	Ca₂Fe²⁺Fe³⁺Si₅O₁₄(OH)	1	280717	161
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	5	280727,280728,280729,280730,280731	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	280767,280768	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	7	280710,280723,280728,280729,280731,280746,280768	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	280746	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	280723,280746,280768,280776	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	280776	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	280767,280768	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	280746	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	280768	2970
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	1	280710	498
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	280768	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	280709	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	19	280734,280735,280736,280737,280738,280739,280740,280741,280742,280743,280744,280746,280748,280749,280750,280751,280752,280753,280759	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	280715	5433
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	280784	1271
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	280718,280783	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4	280724,280767,280768,280776	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	280746	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	280746	17380
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	0		485
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	280710,280784	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	9	280723,280728,280742,280744,280746,280750,280753,280759,280776	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	280713	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	19	280721,280727,280728,280729,280731,280734,280735,280736,280738,280741,280743,280746,280748,280750,280751,280752,280753,280767,280768	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	280746	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	280764	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	280746	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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