Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Packrat Mine, Gateway, Gateway District, Mesa Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 260349
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-260349.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Packrat Mine, Gateway, Gateway District, Mesa Co., Colorado, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 38°38'51"N
Longitude: 109°2'48"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.6475,-109.04666666667

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.

Ajoite	Calcite	Fluorite	Gypsum	Hewettite	None	Not in a structural group	Pascoite	Sulphur	Volborthite

Andersonite ()*	Ansermetite ()*	Calcite ()*	Carnotite ()*	Dickthomssenite ()*
Gatewayite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hewettite ()*	Hummerite ()*	Hydropascoite ()*
Kegginite ()*	Lasalite ()*	Lumsdenite ()*	Magnesiopascoite ()*	Martyite ()*
Mesaite ()*	Metarossite ()*	Morrisonite ()*	Munirite ()*	Navajoite ()*
Packratite ()*	Pascoite ()*	Pharmacolite ()*	Picropharmacolite ()*	Postite ()*
Rossite ()*	Selenium ()*	Sherwoodite ()*	Tyuyamunite ()*	Uraninite ()*
Uranopilite ()*	Vanarsite ()*

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 As C Ca Fe H K Mg Mn Na O Pb S Se U V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As C Ca Fe H K Mg Mn Na O Pb S Se U V Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Ajoite Calcite Fluorite Gypsum Hewettite None Not in a structural group Pascoite Sulphur Volborthite

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Andersonite ()*	Not in a structural group	Na₂Ca(UO₂)(CO₃)₃·5-6H₂O			47
Ansermetite ()*	Not in a structural group	Mn²⁺V⁵⁺₂O₆·4H₂O			9
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			27770
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O			1184
Dickthomssenite ()*	None	MgV₂O₆·7H₂O			6
Gatewayite ()*	None	Ca₆(As³⁺V⁴⁺₃V⁵⁺₉As⁵⁺₆O₅₁)·31H₂O	0	0	1
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			6890
Hewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·9H₂O			58
Hummerite ()*	Pascoite	KMgV⁵⁺₅O₁₄·8H₂O			21
Hydropascoite ()*	Pascoite	Ca₃(V₁₀O₂₈)·24H₂O			1
Kegginite ()*	Not in a structural group	Pb₃Ca₃[AsV₁₂O₄₀(VO)]·20H₂O	0	0	1
Lasalite ()*	Pascoite	Na₂Mg₂V₁₀O₂₈·20H₂O			5
Lumsdenite ()*	None	NaCa₃Mg₂(As³⁺V⁴⁺₂V⁵⁺₁₀As⁵⁺₆O₅₁)·45H₂O			1
Magnesiopascoite ()*	Pascoite	Ca₂MgV⁵⁺₁₀O₂₈·16H₂O	0	0	6
Martyite ()*	Volborthite	Zn₃V₂O₇(OH)₂·2H₂O	0	0	4
Mesaite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaMn²⁺₅(V₂O₇)₃·12H₂O	0	0	1
Metarossite ()*	None	CaV⁵⁺₂O₆·2H₂O			34
Morrisonite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca₁₁(As³⁺V⁴⁺₂V⁵⁺₁₀As⁵⁺₆O₅₁)₂·78H₂O	0	0	1
Munirite ()*	None	NaV⁵⁺O₃·1.9H₂O			5
Navajoite ()*	Ajoite	(V⁵⁺,Fe³⁺)₁₀O₂₄·12H₂O			11
Packratite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca₁₁(As³⁺V⁵⁺₁₀V⁴⁺₂As⁵⁺₆O₅₁)₂·83H₂O	0	0	1
Pascoite ()*	Pascoite	Ca₃V⁵⁺₁₀O₂₈·17H₂O			78
Pharmacolite ()*	Gypsum	Ca(AsO₃OH)·2H₂O			105
Picropharmacolite ()*	None	Ca₄Mg(AsO₃OH)₂(AsO₄)₂·11H₂O			99
Postite ()*	Pascoite	Mg(H₂O)₆Al₂(OH)₂(H₂O)₈(V₁₀O₂₈)·13H₂O	0	0	4
Rossite ()*	None	Ca(VO₃)₂·4H₂O			29
Selenium ()*	Sulphur	Se			143
Sherwoodite ()*	None	Ca_5.5(AlV⁴⁺V⁵⁺₁₂O₃₉)·28H₂O			20
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O			628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂			2718
Uranopilite ()*	None	(UO₂)₆(SO₄)O₂(OH)₆·14H₂O			94
Vanarsite ()*	Not in a structural group	NaCa₁₂(As³⁺V⁵⁺_8.5V⁴⁺_3.5As⁵⁺₆O₅₁)₂·78H₂O	0	0	1

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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