Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
High Hill, Virgilina District, Halifax Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 254825
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-254825.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "High Hill, Virgilina District, Halifax Co., Virginia, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
High Hill Mine

Latitude: 36°37'59"N
Longitude: 78°45'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.633055555556,-78.75

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.

Acanthite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Covellite	Epidote	Feldspar	Malachite
Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz

Acanthite ()*	Albite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Epidote ()*	Hematite ()*
Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Quartz ()*

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 C Ca Cu Fe H K Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Covellite Epidote Feldspar Malachite
Mica None Not in a structural group Quartz

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	281378	2793
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	281378	8803
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	281378	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	281378	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	281378	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	281378	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	281378	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	281378	4165
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	281378	8173
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	281378	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	281378	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	281378	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	281378	2349
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	281378	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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