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:
Blue Mountain Group (Blue Mountains 4 Claim; Bozo No. 1 Claim; Dorothy No. 2 Claim; Skull Creek Carnotite Deposit), Skull Creek District (Blue Mountain District), Moffat Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 116213
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-116213.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blue Mountain Group (Blue Mountains 4 Claim; Bozo No. 1 Claim; Dorothy No. 2 Claim; Skull Creek Carnotite Deposit), Skull Creek District (Blue Mountain District), Moffat Co., Colorado, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 40°16'45"N
Longitude: 108°41'31"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.279166666667,-108.69194444444

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.

Adelite	Autunite	Brochantite	Fluorite	Fritzscheite	Iranite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Volborthite

Autunite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Carnotite ()*
Chalcomenite ()*	Conichalcite ()*	Cornubite ()*	Iranite ()*	Malachite ()*
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Molybdomenite ()*	Tangeite ()*	Tyuyamunite ()*	Uraninite ()*
Volborthite ()*

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: As C Ca Cr Cu Fe H K O P Pb S Se Si U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As C Ca Cr Cu Fe H K O P Pb S Se Si U V

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Adelite Autunite Brochantite Fluorite Fritzscheite Iranite Malachite None Not in a structural group Volborthite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	1272
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	5516
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1633
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	1184
Chalcomenite ()*	None	Cu(Se⁴⁺O₃)·2H₂O	40
Conichalcite ()*	Adelite	CaCu(AsO₄)(OH)	363
Cornubite ()*	None	Cu₅(AsO₄)₂(OH)₄	109
Iranite ()*	Iranite	CuPb₁₀(CrO₄)₆(SiO₄)₂(OH)₂	11
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	12537
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Fritzscheite	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	129
Molybdomenite ()*	None	PbSe⁴⁺O₃	15
Tangeite ()*	Adelite	CaCu(VO₄)(OH)	60
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O	628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	2718
Volborthite ()*	Volborthite	Cu₃V₂O₇(OH)₂·2H₂O	155

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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