Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
New River-Cripple Creek Region, Wythe Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 254667
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-254667.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "New River-Cripple Creek Region, Wythe Co., Virginia, USA": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Austinville-Ivanhoe District
Bertha Subdistrict

Latitude: 36°52'53"N
Longitude: 80°51'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.881388888889,-80.863055555556

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	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Corundum	Diaspore	Fluorite	Gypsum
Marcasite	Minium	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Massicot ()*
Minium ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sauconite ()*	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 As Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg Na O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Corundum Diaspore Fluorite Gypsum
Marcasite Minium None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	4	283330,283331,283334,283338	2734
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	4	283329,283331,283334,283338	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3	283329,283331,283338	3250
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	283331	9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	9	283329,283330,283331,283332,283334,283339,283340,283341,283343	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	283338	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	11	283329,283330,283331,283333,283334,283336,283337,283338,283339,283341,283343	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	3	283331,283338,283341	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	283338	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	283331,283334	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	13	283329,283330,283331,283332,283333,283334,283335,283336,283337,283338,283340,283341,283343	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	6	283329,283330,283331,283334,283338,283341	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	10	283329,283330,283331,283334,283335,283338,283339,283340,283341,283343	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	4	283331,283334,283341,283343	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	4	283329,283330,283331,283338	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	283343	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	6	283330,283331,283334,283338,283340,283341	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	3	283331,283334,283338	1066
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	4	283330,283331,283334,283338	5674
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	1	283329	202
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄	1	283329	247
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	10	283329,283330,283331,283332,283334,283336,283338,283339,283341,283343	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	283329,283331,283338,283339,283341	61156
Sauconite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Zn₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	283338	56
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	7	283330,283331,283334,283338,283340,283341,283343	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	14	283329,283330,283331,283332,283333,283334,283335,283336,283337,283338,283339,283340,283341,283343	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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