Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
State Highway 78 Roadcuts, Big Lue Mountains (Big Laue Mountain), Greenlee Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 28
Youngest recorded age at locality: 27

mindat Locality ID: 55135
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-55135.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "State Highway 78 Roadcuts, Big Lue Mountains (Big Laue Mountain), Greenlee Co., Arizona, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Coronadite	Corundum	None	Pseudobrookite	Titanite	Tridymite

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 Ca Fe Mn O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba Ca Fe Mn O Si Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Coronadite Corundum None Pseudobrookite Titanite Tridymite

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Hematite ()*	Hollandite ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*	Titanite ()*	Tridymite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	28	27	14640
Hollandite ()*	Coronadite	Ba(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	28	27	243
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	28	27	164
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	28	27	4899
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	28	27	458

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	USGS-OF-95-263-Big-Lue-0001	28	27	~27-28		age of Hell's Hole rhyolite									55135	State Highway 78 Roadcuts, Big Lue Mountains (Big Laue Mountain), Greenlee Co., Arizona, USA		Ratté and Brooks (1995)		USGSOFR95-263

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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