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:
Union Co., Georgia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 26857
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-26857.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Union Co., Georgia, USA": 26
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Akin Mountain
Blairsville
Brasstown Antiform
Butt Mine (Legal Tender Mines)
Coffee Prospect
Coosa Creek Gold Mine
Coosa Creek Placer Mine
Corundum Prospects
Crumley Creek
Gum Log (J. H. Brown; Brown Placer Mines)
Gum Log Mountain
Killian Mine (Ross; Killian & Rhodes; Lot 184 Mines)
Lot 301
Martin Mining Property (Martin; Stannick; Teague)
Mauney Prospect
No Name
Trackrock Gap
Union County Meteorite
Wellborn Hill Mine
Wellborn Mountain Quarry

Latitude: 34°52'29"N
Longitude: 83°58'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.874722222222,-83.980833333333

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.

Clay	Copper	Corundum	Iron	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Sulphur

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 Ca Fe H K Ni O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Copper Corundum Iron Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Sulphur

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Corundum ()*	Gold ()*	Iron ()*	Kyanite ()*	Margarite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Sulphur ()*
Taenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	4	203401,203404,203411,203412	1797
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	11	203395,203397,203399,203400,203402,203403,203405,203407,203408,203409,203414	30554
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	203413	1089
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	2	203390,203404	1507
Margarite ()*	Mica Clay	CaAl₂Si₂Al₂O₁₀(OH)₂	1	203412	168
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	203393,203394	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	203392	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	203403,203406,203414	61156
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	203395	1516
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	203392	2045
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	203413	703

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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