Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Ozark-Mahoning Group, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA

mindat Locality ID: 53696
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-53696.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ozark-Mahoning Group, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
A. L. Davis No. 4 Mine (Mahoning No. 4 Mine; Annie No. 4)
M. F. Oxford No. 7 Mine (Mahoning No. 7 Mine)
Minerva No. 1 Mine (Ozark-Mahoning No. 1 Mine)
Ozark-Mahoning Mine
Saline Mines
W.L. Davis No. 2 Mine
W.L. Davis-Deardorff Mine
Wall Mine No. 1

Latitude: 37°30'40"N
Longitude: 88°10'36"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.511111111111,-88.176666666667

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.

Alstonite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Fluorite	Gypsum	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group
Paralstonite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Alstonite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Barytocalcite ()*	Benstonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Malachite ()*	Paralstonite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Strontianite ()*	Vaesite ()*	Witherite ()*

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: Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg Ni O Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alstonite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Fluorite Gypsum Malachite None Not in a structural group
Paralstonite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

24 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alstonite ()*	Alstonite	BaCa(CO₃)₂	1	212592	24
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2	212592,212599	2734
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	212599	3250
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	212590,212592	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	4	212592,212595,212597,212599	11547
Barytocalcite ()*	None	BaCa(CO₃)₂	1	212592	83
Benstonite ()*	None	Ba₆Ca₆Mg(CO₃)₁₃	1	212592	17
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	212592,212597,212599	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	212592	1252
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	212591,212592,212599	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	212592,212599	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	10	212590,212591,212592,212593,212595,212596,212597,212598,212599,212600	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	212592,212599,212600	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	212592,212599	6890
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	212592	1689
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	212590,212592	12537
Paralstonite ()*	Paralstonite	BaCa(CO₃)₂	1	212592	7
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	212599	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	212592,212599	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	212590	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	212592,212597,212599,212600	21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	3	212591,212592,212597	589
Vaesite ()*	Pyrite	NiS₂	1	212599	106
Witherite ()*	Aragonite	Ba(CO₃)	5	212590,212591,212592,212593,212597	251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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