Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Virgilina District, Granville Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 29156
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29156.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Virgilina District, Granville Co., North Carolina, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Blue Wing Mine (Royster Mine; Spring Shaft)
Holloway Mine (Copper King Mines)

Latitude: 36°30'30"N
Longitude: 78°46'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.508333333333,-78.781944444444

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	Allophane	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Digenite
Epidote	Feldspar	Malachite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz

Acanthite ()*	Anilite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*
Cuprite ()*	Djurleite ()*	Epidote ()*	Hematite ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Silver ()*

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 O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

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

21 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	2	250727,250728	2793
Anilite ()*	Digenite	Cu₇S₄	1	250727	88
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	250727,250728	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	250727,250728	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	250727,250728	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	250727,250728	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	250727	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	250727	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	250728	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	250728	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2	250727,250728	2970
Djurleite ()*	None	Cu₃₁S₁₆	2	250727,250728	300
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	250727,250728	8173
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	250727,250728	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	250727,250728	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	250727,250728	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	250728	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	250727	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	250727	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	250727,250728	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	250728	5186

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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