Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Casey Co., Kentucky, USA

mindat Locality ID: 7763
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-7763.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Casey Co., Kentucky, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Bethelridge Mine (Casey Stone Company)
Casey County Meteorite
Liberty
Roadcut Bench Clay Bed Prospect
Walltown Meteorite

Latitude: 37°18'19"N
Longitude: 84°50'10"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.305277777778,-84.836111111111

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.

Baryte	Calcite	Fluorite	Iron	None	Not in a structural group	Perovskite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Spinel

Anhydrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Cohenite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Iron ()*	Magnetite ()*	Quartz ()*	Schreibersite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*	Wüstite ()*

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: C Ca Cr F Fe Mg Ni O P S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: O S Si Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Calcite Fluorite Iron None Not in a structural group Perovskite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Spinel

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	215525	1588
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	215522,215525	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	0		1252
Cohenite ()*	Perovskite	CFe₃	1	215523	77
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	215522,215525	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	215522	9617
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	215523	1089
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	215523	14899
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	1	215523	374
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	215525	21482
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	215523	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	215527	1044
Wüstite ()*	Rocksalt	FeO	1	215523	74

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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