Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Eldorado, Montgomery Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24867
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24867.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Eldorado, Montgomery Co., North Carolina, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Coggins Mine (Appalachian Mine; Rich Cog)
Eldorado Mine

Latitude: 35°28'35"N
Longitude: 80°1'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.476388888889,-80.018611111111

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Malachite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Sphalerite

Anatase ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Gold ()*
Hydrozincite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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 Au C Ca Cu Fe H K O S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C O Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Malachite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Sphalerite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	252188	2162
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	252188	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	252187	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	252187	27198
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	252187	30554
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	252188	1066
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	252188	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	252187	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	252187	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	252187	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	252188	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	0		2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	252188	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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