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:
Beaufort, Carteret Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 281666
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-281666.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Beaufort, Carteret Co., North Carolina, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Queen Anne's Revenge Wreck Site

Latitude: 34°41'43"N
Longitude: 76°41'20"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.695277777778,-76.688888888889

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	Aragonite	Arsenolamprite	Clinozoisite	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Pyroxene	Rocksalt	Spinel

Abhurite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Cuprite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Herzenbergite ()*	Hydrocerussite ()*	Hydroromarchite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Romarchite ()*

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 Cl Cu Fe H Hg Mg O Pb S Si Sn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Aragonite Arsenolamprite Clinozoisite Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Marcasite None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Pyroxene Rocksalt Spinel

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Abhurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Sn²⁺₂₁O₆(OH)₁₄Cl₁₆	0	0	1	249888	7
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			1	249888	3419
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)			1	249888	1036
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			1	249888	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆			1	249888	2060
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS			1	249888	2600
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O			1	249888	2970
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	249888	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	249888	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	249888	7437
Herzenbergite ()*	Arsenolamprite	SnS			1	249888	35
Hydrocerussite ()*	None	Pb₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			1	249888	201
Hydroromarchite ()*	None	Sn²⁺₃O₂(OH)₂			1	249888	6
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	249888	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			1	249888	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			1	249888	39462
Romarchite ()*	None	SnO			1	249888	13

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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