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:
Hampshire Co., West Virginia, USA

mindat Locality ID: 61957
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-61957.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hampshire Co., West Virginia, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
C. O. Kackley Iron Prospect
Cacapon River District
Horst Property
Little Mountain Deposit
Romney
Romney Quarry (Aurora Stone Company; Inc.)
Sheetz Prospect

Latitude: 39°18'52"N
Longitude: 78°30'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.314444444444,-78.501944444444

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.

Amorphous	Baryte	Calcite	Fluorite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Sphalerite

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 F Fe Mg O S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba Ca F Fe O S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Baryte Calcite Fluorite None Pyrite Quartz Sphalerite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Lechatelierite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	286547	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	286547	1252
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	286547	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Lechatelierite ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂	1	286543	62
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	286547	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	0		21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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