Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
North Garden, Albemarle Co., Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 291589
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-291589.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "North Garden, Albemarle Co., Virginia, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Bettie Martin Mine
Hardware Church
North Garden Mine
Unnamed Fe-Zeolite Occurrence [1]

Latitude: 37°56'32"N
Longitude: 78°38'52"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.942222222222,-78.647777777778

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	Clay	Corundum	Diaspore	Garnet	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Smectite-vermiculite
Spinel	Wavellite	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Churchite-(Y) ()*	Goethite ()*	Grunerite ()*	Hastingsite ()*
Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Spessartine ()*	Wavellite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Ca Fe H Mn Na O P S Si Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Clay Corundum Diaspore Garnet Gypsum None Not in a structural group Pyrite Smectite-vermiculite
Spinel Wavellite Zircon

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	279365	2162
Churchite-(Y) ()*	Gypsum	Y(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	279365	70
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	279364,279365	7437
Grunerite ()*	Amphibole	Fe²⁺₂Fe²⁺₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	279366	223
Hastingsite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Fe²⁺₄Fe³⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂	1	279365	209
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	279364	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2	279362,279365	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	279362,279365	14899
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	279365	471
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	279364	39462
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	279365	1214
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	1	279365	374
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	279365	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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