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:
Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co., Alabama, USA

mindat Locality ID: 4123
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4123.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co., Alabama, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Highbluff Limonite Bank

Latitude: 34°1'21"N
Longitude: 85°27'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.0225,-85.455833333333

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.

Alunite	Baryte	Beraunite	Corundum	Diaspore	Dufrénite	Gypsum	Leucophosphite	None	Phosphosiderite
Pyrite	Quartz	Rockbridgeite	Rutile	Wavellite

Baryte ()*	Cacoxenite ()*	Churchite-(Y) ()*	Dufrénite ()*	Eleonorite ()*
Goethite ()*	Gorceixite ()*	Hematite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kidwellite ()*
Leucophosphite ()*	Natrodufrénite ()*	Phosphosiderite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rockbridgeite ()*	Strengite ()*	Tinticite ()*	Variscite ()*
Wavellite ()*

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 Ba Ca Fe H K Mn Na O P S Si Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba Fe H K Mn Na O P S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Baryte Beraunite Corundum Diaspore Dufrénite Gypsum Leucophosphite None Phosphosiderite
Pyrite Quartz Rockbridgeite Rutile Wavellite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Cacoxenite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂₄AlO₆(PO₄)₁₇(OH)₁₂·75H₂O	1	125206	280
Churchite-(Y) ()*	Gypsum	Y(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	125206	70
Dufrénite ()*	Dufrénite	Ca_0.5Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₅(PO₄)₄(OH)₆·2H₂O	1	125206	139
Eleonorite ()*	Beraunite	Fe³⁺₆(PO₄)₄O(OH)₄·6H₂O	1	125206	51
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	0		7437
Gorceixite ()*	Alunite	BaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	0		121
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0		14640
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0		2228
Kidwellite ()*	None	NaFe³⁺_9+x(PO₄)₆(OH)₁₁·3H₂O (x ≈ 0.33)	1	125206	53
Leucophosphite ()*	Leucophosphite	KFe³⁺₂(PO₄)₂(OH)·2H₂O	0		110
Natrodufrénite ()*	Dufrénite	NaFe²⁺Fe³⁺₅(PO₄)₄(OH)₆·2H₂O	0		46
Phosphosiderite ()*	Phosphosiderite	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	0		182
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	0		3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Rockbridgeite ()*	Rockbridgeite	(Fe²⁺_0.5Fe³⁺_0.5)₂Fe³⁺₃(PO₄)₃(OH)₅	1	125206	206
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	125206	263
Tinticite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·3H₂O	0		19
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	0		301
Wavellite ()*	Wavellite	Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₃·5H₂O	0		374

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060424	Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co., Alabama, USA	https://rruff.info/R060424

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