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Locality Name:
Corvusite Nos. 1-3 Mines, Gateway District, Grand Co., Utah, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 550
Youngest recorded age at locality: 70

mindat Locality ID: 37889
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-37889.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Corvusite Nos. 1-3 Mines, Gateway District, Grand Co., Utah, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 38°36'59"N
Longitude: 109°5'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.616388888889,-109.08416666667

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.

None	Zircon

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: Ca H K O Si U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca H K O Si U V

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
None Zircon

3 IMA Minerals at location:

Carnotite ()*	Coffinite ()*	Rauvite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	84	70	1184
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O	84	70	566
Rauvite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂V₁₀O₂₈·16H₂O	84	70	32

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
Giersdorf_00000605	70	70	70	238U-206U	Age is applied to the primary U minerals at this locality		uraninite	SS189	Uraninite	Coffinite, Uraninite	37889	Corvusite Nos. 1-3 Mines, Gateway District, Grand Co., Utah, USA	Corvusite Mine	Miller et al. (1963)	10.1130/0016-7606(1963)74[609:IEOTOO]2.0.CO;2	GSAB74_609	U238-Pb206 Age given by the USGS for the Morrison Formation found at the Corvusite Mine
Giersdorf_00000606	84	84	84	235U-207Pb	Age is applied to the primary U minerals at this locality		uraninite	SS189	Uraninite	Coffinite, Uraninite	37889	Corvusite Nos. 1-3 Mines, Gateway District, Grand Co., Utah, USA	Corvusite Mine	Miller et al. (1963)	10.1130/0016-7606(1963)74[609:IEOTOO]2.0.CO;2	GSAB74_609	U235-Pb207 Age given by the USGS for the Morrison Formation found at the Corvusite Mine
Giersdorf_00000607	550	550	550	207Pb-206Pb	The Pb207-Pb206 age given for these samples is described as being highly erroneous due to the systematic sensitivity of the analytic methods	low	uraninite	SS189	Uraninite	Coffinite, Uraninite	37889	Corvusite Nos. 1-3 Mines, Gateway District, Grand Co., Utah, USA	Corvusite Mine	Miller et al. (1963)	10.1130/0016-7606(1963)74[609:IEOTOO]2.0.CO;2	GSAB74_609	Pb207-Pb206 Age given by the USGS for the Morrison Formation found at the Corvusite Mine

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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