Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mason Pass, Yerington, Yerington District, Singatse Range, Lyon Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 48628
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-48628.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mason Pass, Yerington, Yerington District, Singatse Range, Lyon Co., Nevada, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Taubert No. 1 Mining Area

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.

Alunite	Andalusite	Atacamite	Brochantite	Cyanotrichite	None	Not in a structural group	Spangolite	Turquoise

Azurite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Cacoxenite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Cyanotrichite ()*
Jarosite ()*	Libethenite ()*	Paratacamite ()*	Spangolite ()*	Strengite ()*
Turquoise ()*	Variscite ()*

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 C Cl Cu Fe H K O P S Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Cl Cu Fe H K O P S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Andalusite Atacamite Brochantite Cyanotrichite None Not in a structural group Spangolite Turquoise

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	0		5509
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	0		1633
Cacoxenite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂₄AlO₆(PO₄)₁₇(OH)₁₂·75H₂O	0		280
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	0		2970
Cyanotrichite ()*	Cyanotrichite	Cu₄Al₂(SO₄)(OH)₁₂(H₂O)₂	0		179
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0		2228
Libethenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(PO₄)(OH)	0		234
Paratacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃(Cu,Zn)Cl₂(OH)₆	0		158
Spangolite ()*	Spangolite	Cu₆Al(SO₄)(OH)₁₂Cl·3H₂O	0		105
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	0		263
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	238911	484
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	0		301

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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