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:
Cranberry Creek Segment, Gossan Lead District, Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Carroll Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 254528
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-254528.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cranberry Creek Segment, Gossan Lead District, Southern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Carroll Co., Virginia, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Ben White Prospect
Brown And Stephenson Mine (Brown And Stevenson Mine)
Cranberry Copper Mine
Fairmont Copper Mine (Fairmount Copper Mine)

Latitude: 36°48'21"N
Longitude: 80°46'41"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.805833333333,-80.778055555556

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.

Amphibole	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Cubanite	Diaspore	Feldspar	Malachite	Mica
Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*
Covellite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	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 C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Cubanite Diaspore Feldspar Malachite Mica
Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Wurtzite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	280411,280412	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	3	280411,280412,280413	8803
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	3	280411,280412,280413	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	280411,280412,280413	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	280411,280413	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	280412,280413	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	2	280412,280413	802
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	3	280411,280412,280413	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	280411,280412,280413	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	280411,280412,280413	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	3	280411,280412,280413	7437
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	280412,280413	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	280411,280412,280413	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	280410,280412,280413	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	4	280410,280411,280412,280413	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	280411,280412,280413	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	280411,280412,280413	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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