Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Timberville, Rockingham Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 27142
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27142.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Timberville, Rockingham Co., Virginia, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Bowers-Campbell Mine (Shacklett Mine; Shenandoah Prospect; Bowers-Garber Prospect)
Gordon Mine
Howard Showalter Prospect
Timberville Mine (Weather Holtz Mine)
Turner Prospect
Vetter Prospect
Zigler Tract Prospect (Cold Spring Farm Prospect; Shenandoah Prospect)

Latitude: 38°38'44"N
Longitude: 78°47'34"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.645555555556,-78.792777777778

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.

Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Fluorite	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dickite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Greenockite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	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 Ba C Ca Cd Cu F Fe H K Mg O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Cu F Fe H O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Fluorite Kaolinite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Wurtzite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	282612	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	282609,282615	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Dickite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	0		651
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	7	282609,282610,282611,282612,282613,282614,282615	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	282609,282610,282612	24243
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	2	282609,282612	717
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	282615	1689
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	282612	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	282609,282610,282611,282614,282615	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	282609,282615	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2	282609,282612	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	7	282609,282610,282611,282612,282613,282614,282615	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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