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Locality Name:
Roseland, Nelson Co., Virginia, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 980
Youngest recorded age at locality: 892

mindat Locality ID: 4209
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4209.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Roseland, Nelson Co., Virginia, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
American Rutile Quarry
Blue Rock Farm Prospect (E. M. Hughes Deposit)
Giles-Hite Prospect (A. T. Stratton Prospect; Hight Prospect; Hite Prospect; H. M. Giles Prospect; Shelton Prospect; H. H. Harvey Prospect)
J. D. Johnson Prospect
Massies Mill
T. M. Boyd Prospect

Latitude: 37°46'51"N
Longitude: 78°57'58"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.780833333333,-78.966111111111

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	Chalcopyrite	Chevkinite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Mica	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Titanite	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Anatase ()*	Augite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Enstatite ()*
Epidote ()*	Graphite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Microcline ()*
Muscovite ()*	Perrierite-(Ce) ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*	Zircon ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 Ce Cu Fe H K Mg O S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Mg O Si Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Chalcopyrite Chevkinite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Feldspar Mica None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Spinel Titanite Zircon

19 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
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	980	892	2	281972,281974	3419
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂			1	281972	2162
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆			1	281972	2060
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			1	281972	27198
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	980	892	0		944
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	281972	8173
Graphite ()*	None	C	980	892	3	281972,281974,281976	2812
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	980	892	5	281972,281973,281974,281975,281977	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	281975	14899
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			2	281972,281973	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	980	892	2	281972,281974	17380
Perrierite-(Ce) ()*	Chevkinite	Ce₄MgFe³⁺₂Ti₂O₈(Si₂O₇)₂			1	281976	46
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	980	892	2	281974,281975	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	980	892	3	281972,281974,281975	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	980	892	2	281972,281974	5614
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	980	892	2	281972,281974	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂			1	281972	2562
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	980	892	0		5251
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	281972	1025

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Reference	Reference ID
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01902_206_238	892	892	892	206_238	zircon	Zircon	104310	Giles-Hite Prospect (A. T. Stratton Prospect; Hight Prospect; Hite Prospect; H. M. Giles Prospect; Shelton Prospect; H. H. Harvey Prospect), Roseland, Nelson Co., Virginia, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01902_207_206	980	980	980	207_206	zircon	Zircon	104310	Giles-Hite Prospect (A. T. Stratton Prospect; Hight Prospect; Hite Prospect; H. M. Giles Prospect; Shelton Prospect; H. H. Harvey Prospect), Roseland, Nelson Co., Virginia, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01902_207_235	918	918	918	207_235	zircon	Zircon	104310	Giles-Hite Prospect (A. T. Stratton Prospect; Hight Prospect; Hite Prospect; H. M. Giles Prospect; Shelton Prospect; H. H. Harvey Prospect), Roseland, Nelson Co., Virginia, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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