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:
Persimmon Peak-Las Tablas Group, Petaca District, Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 242318
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-242318.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Persimmon Peak-Las Tablas Group, Petaca District, Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Alma Deposit (Kansas City Deposit)
Apache Canyon
Canary Bird Pegmatite
Eureka Deposit (Loma Deposit)
Meadow Deposit
Silver Spur Deposit (Old Eureka; Hoyt-Seward; Las Tablas)
Unnamed Prospect (1)
Unnamed Prospect (2)
Unnamed Prospect (3)
Unnamed Prospect (4)
Unnamed Prospect (5)

Latitude: 36°32'49"N
Longitude: 106°3'11"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.546944444444,-106.05305555556

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.

Beryl	Bismutite	Clay	Columbite	Corundum	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Mica	Molybdenite
None	Quartz

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 Be Bi C Ca F Fe H K Mn Mo Na Nb O S Si Ti Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Beryl Bismutite Clay Columbite Corundum Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Mica Molybdenite
None Quartz

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Albite ()*	Beryl ()*	Bismutite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Hematite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Spessartine ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	6	246471,246473,246474,246475,246476,246477	8803
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	4	246471,246473,246475,246476	4286
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	4	246471,246473,246474,246476	716
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	5	246471,246473,246474,246475,246476	9617
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	246479	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	3	246472,246474,246481	5433
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	6	246471,246473,246474,246475,246476,246477	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	246471,246479	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	8	246471,246473,246474,246475,246476,246477,246478,246480	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	9	246471,246472,246473,246474,246475,246476,246477,246479,246481	61156
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	YFe³⁺Nb₂O₈	4	246471,246473,246475,246476	353
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	5	246471,246473,246474,246475,246476	1214

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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