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Locality Name:
Deschutes Co., Oregon, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 5.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0.002

mindat Locality ID: 24391
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24391.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Deschutes Co., Oregon, USA": 91
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 90

Number of Child Localities: 90
Child Localities:
Abbott Butte Pit (Camp Abbott Pit)
Airport Quarry
Bachelor Rock Road Pit
Buckhorn Canyon Claims
Building Stone Quarry (MRDS - 10052705)
Building Stone Quarry (MRDS - 10052714)
Building Stone Quarry (MRDS - 10052715)
Bull Springs Pit
C. A. Loe Pit
Cascade Pit (Graystone Corp. No. 1 Pit)
Cascade Pumice Company
Central Oregon Pumice Company (Central Oregon Pumice Pit & Plant)
Century Drive Pit (Jack Robinson & Sons; Inc)
City Of Redmond
Cline Butte
Cline Butte Pit
Cocoa Pit
Crescent Junction
Crocker & Smith Claim No. 1-5
Cyrus Farms Pit (Cyrus; Willard)
Demolition Landfill Site
Deschutes Concrete Products Deposit
Deschutes Junction Pit No. 3
Deschutes Ready Mix
Desert Sun Pit
Devils Flat No. 1 & 3
Dunn Pit And Plant
E. A. Moore Pit
East Lake
Fawn Pit
Finley Butte Pit
G. Heden No. 1; 2; 3
G. Heden No. 4
G. Heden No. 5; 6; 7; 8
G. Heden No. 9; 10; 11
Grassy Buttte Pit
Green Stone Pit
Hampton Butte
Haner Butte
Helmholtz Pit
Hermana Group
Horse Butte Cinder Pit (Horse Butte Pit)
Jones Cinder
Jones No. 4
Jones Ridge (Central Oregon Pumice Company; William E Miller Dba)
Jones West Ridge
Laidlaw Butte Pit (Tumalo Pit)
Lava Butte Cinder Pit
Le Roy Grote
Long Butte Pit (Long Butte Pit & Plant)
Mid-Oregon Iron Works
Oregon State Highway No. 1
Pipeline Pit
Pumice Engineering
Red Butte No. 1
Red Butte No. 2
Redmond 40 Acres No. 2
Redmond Cinder Hill Pit No. 1
Rocky Ridge
Shalex Pit (Sha Lex)
Shevlin Park Road
Site No. 1
Site No. 2
Site No. 3
Smith And Crocker Lode Claim
Sunriver Properties Pit
Terrebonne Deposit (Dicalite Pit)
Tethrow Butte Quarry
Tumalo Mine
Tumalo Pit
Unnamed Pumice Pit (Central Oregon Pumice Company Deposit; MRDS - 10273871)
Unnamed Pumice Pit (MRDS - 10128300)
Unnamed Pumice Pit (MRDS - 10128438)
Unnamed Pumice Pit (MRDS - 10128607)
Unnamed Pumice Pit (MRDS - 10249333)
Unnamed Pumice Pit (MRDS - 10274456)
Unnamed Pumice Pit (MRDS - 10281054)
Unnamed Stone - Crushed/Broken Pit (MRDS - 10298469)
Unnamed Volcanic Materials Pit (MRDS - 10128791)
Unnamed Volcanic Materials Pit (MRDS - 10177387)
Unnamed Volcanic Materials Pit (MRDS - 10250096)
Unnamed Volcanic Materials Pit (MRDS - 10273961)
Unnamed Volcanic Materials Pit (MRDS - 10274307)
Unnamed Volcanic Materials Pit (MRDS - 10274334)
Unnamed Volcanic Materials Pit (MRDS - 10274370)
Unnamed Volcanic Materials Pit (MRDS - 10274466)
Wil-Ho Construction Company
Winslow Claim No. 1 And 2
Witching Stick Lode Claim
Zimmerman Butte Pit (Oregon State Highway Division No. 3)

Latitude: 44°5'56"N
Longitude: 121°18'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.098888888889,-121.31416666667

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Na O S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AluniteAmorphousAnalcimeAragoniteBaryteCalciteClayClinozoisiteCopperCorundum
CristobaliteDiasporeEpidoteGypsumGyroliteLepidocrociteMarcasiteMicaMordeniteNickeline
NoneNot in a structural groupPyriteQuartzSphaleriteSpinelTridymite

35 IMA Minerals at location:
Analcime  (*)Anhydrite  (*)Ankerite  (*)Aragonite  (*)Baryte  (*)
Calcite  (*)Copper  (*)Cristobalite  (*)Dolomite  (*)Epidote  (*)
Goethite  (*)Gypsum  (*)Gyrolite  (*)Hematite  (*)Jarosite  (*)
Kutnohorite  (*)Laumontite  (*)Lechatelierite  (*)Lepidocrocite  (*)Magnesite  (*)
Magnetite  (*)Marcasite  (*)Mordenite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Natroalunite  (*)
Natrojarosite  (*)Okenite  (*)Opal  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Rhodochrosite  (*)Siderite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Tridymite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Analcime  (*)AnalcimeNa(AlSi2O6)·H2O12572331627
Anhydrite  (*)Not in a structural groupCa(SO4)12572331588
Ankerite  (*)NoneCa(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)212572333092
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)12572333250
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)125723311547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)125723327770
Copper  (*)CopperCu12572333846
Cristobalite  (*)CristobaliteSiO21257233453
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)212572339895
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)12572338173
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)12572337437
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O12572336890
Gyrolite  (*)GyroliteNaCa16(Si23Al)O60(OH)8·14H2O1257233142
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3125723314640
Jarosite  (*)AluniteKFe3+3(SO4)2(OH)612572332228
Kutnohorite  (*)NoneCaMn2+(CO3)21257233234
Laumontite  (*)Not in a structural groupCaAl2Si4O12·4H2O12572331271
Lechatelierite  (*)AmorphousSiO2125721862
Lepidocrocite  (*)LepidocrociteFe3+O(OH)1257233581
Magnesite  (*)CalciteMg(CO3)12572331487
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4125723314899
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS212572335674
Mordenite  (*)Mordenite(Na2,Ca,K2)4(Al8Si40)O96·28H2O1257233405
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2125723317380
Natroalunite  (*)AluniteNaAl3(SO4)2(OH)61257233128
Natrojarosite  (*)AluniteNaFe3+3(SO4)2(OH)61257233254
Okenite  (*)NoneCa10Si18O46·18H2O125723371
Opal  (*)AmorphousSiO2·nH2O12572332994
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2125723339462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S812572339056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2125723361156
Rhodochrosite  (*)CalciteMn(CO3)12572331711
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)12572336417
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS125723321482
Tridymite  (*)TridymiteSiO21257233458



5 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
NAVDAT-226455.30.012.66+2.64/-2.65   22645    149281Grassy Buttte Pit, Deschutes Co., Oregon, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-498912.982.862.92±0.06   49891    149281Grassy Buttte Pit, Deschutes Co., Oregon, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-298720.10.0020.05+0.05/-0.048   29872    153430Winslow Claim No. 1 And 2, Deschutes Co., Oregon, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-298730.10.0020.05+0.05/-0.048   29873    153430Winslow Claim No. 1 And 2, Deschutes Co., Oregon, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-298740.10.0020.05+0.05/-0.048   29874    153430Winslow Claim No. 1 And 2, Deschutes Co., Oregon, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 


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