Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Iron Blossom Mine (Iron Blossom Consolidated Mining Company), Silver City, Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 32
Youngest recorded age at locality: 32

mindat Locality ID: 11984
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-11984.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Iron Blossom Mine (Iron Blossom Consolidated Mining Company), Silver City, Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 39°55'0"N
Longitude: 112°5'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.916666666667,-112.08333333333

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	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Copper	Covellite	Enargite	Malachite	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Adamite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Enargite ()*
Galena ()*	Jarosite ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*

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: As Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K O Pb S Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Andalusite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Copper Covellite Enargite Malachite None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Wurtzite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Adamite ()*	Andalusite	Zn₂(AsO₄)(OH)	32	32	254
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	32	32	3250
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	32	32	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	32	32	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	32	32	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	32	32	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	32	32	4979
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	32	32	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	32	32	4165
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	32	32	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	32	32	24243
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	32	32	2228
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	32	32	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	32	32	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	32	32	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	32	32	21482

1 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	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedznpb-00496	32	32	32							Yes				4192	Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA	Tintic–East Tintic	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060113	Iron Blossom Mine (Iron Blossom Consolidated Mining Company), Silver City, Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA	https://rruff.info/R060113

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