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:
La Sal District, North Mountain, La Sal Mts, Grand Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24690
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24690.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "La Sal District, North Mountain, La Sal Mts, Grand Co., Utah, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Bornite Mine
Jack Claim
McCoy Mine

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.

Cancrinite-sodalite	Chalcopyrite	Corundum	Feldspar	Hewettite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene
Quartz	Sodalite	Straczekite

Aegirine-augite ()*	Albite ()*	Augite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*
Carnotite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Corvusite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hewettite ()*
Ilsemannite ()*	Malachite ()*	Nosean ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sodalite ()*

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 Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O S Si U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Cl Fe H Mg Na O S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Cancrinite-sodalite Chalcopyrite Corundum Feldspar Hewettite Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene
Quartz Sodalite Straczekite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine-augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Fe³⁺,Mg,Fe²⁺)Si₂O₆	0		286
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	0		8803
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	0		2060
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	273376,273378	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	273376,273378	5516
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	1	273377	1184
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	273378	27198
Corvusite ()*	Straczekite	(Na,Ca,K)_1-x(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺,Fe²⁺)₈O₂₀·4H₂O	1	273377	79
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	273378	14640
Hewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·9H₂O	1	273377	58
Ilsemannite ()*	None	Mo₃O₈·nH₂O (?)	1	273377	123
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	273376,273378	12537
Nosean ()*	Sodalite Cancrinite-sodalite	Na₈(Si₆Al₆)O₂₄(SO₄)·H₂O	0		75
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	273376,273378	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	273378	61156
Sodalite ()*	Cancrinite-sodalite Sodalite	Na₄(Si₃Al₃)O₁₂Cl	0		444

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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