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, La Sal District (Paradox Valley District), San Juan Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 29425
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29425.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "La Sal, La Sal District (Paradox Valley District), San Juan Co., Utah, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Blue Grotto Prospect
Blue Jay Claim
La Sal Mine
Nevada Lode
Pandora Mine
Vanadium Queen Mine

Latitude: 38°19'3"N
Longitude: 109°10'22"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.3175,-109.17277777778

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.

Ajoite	Covellite	Devilline	Diaspore	Fluorite	Fritzscheite	Gypsum	Hewettite	Malachite	Mica
Nolanite	None	Not in a structural group	Pandoraite	Pascoite	Pyrite	Quartz	Ramsdellite	Straczekite	Sulphur
Zircon

Ansermetite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bariandite ()*	Barnesite ()*	Carnotite ()*
Coffinite ()*	Corvusite ()*	Covellite ()*	Devilline ()*	Dickthomssenite ()*
Finchite ()*	Francevillite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hewettite ()*	Lasalite ()*
Magnesiopascoite ()*	Malachite ()*	Melanovanadite ()*	Metahewettite ()*	Metarossite ()*
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Montroseite ()*	Navajoite ()*	Nolanite ()*	Pandoraite-Ba ()*
Pandoraite-Ca ()*	Paramontroseite ()*	Pascoite ()*	Postite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rakovanite ()*	Roscoelite ()*	Rossite ()*	Santafeite ()*
Selenium ()*	Simplotite ()*	Straczekite ()*	Tyuyamunite ()*	Uraninite ()*

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 Se Si Sr Ti U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Ajoite Covellite Devilline Diaspore Fluorite Fritzscheite Gypsum Hewettite Malachite Mica
Nolanite None Not in a structural group Pandoraite Pascoite Pyrite Quartz Ramsdellite Straczekite Sulphur
Zircon

40 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ansermetite ()*	Not in a structural group	Mn²⁺V⁵⁺₂O₆·4H₂O			1	276085	9
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			3	276080,276081,276083	5509
Bariandite ()*	Straczekite	Al_0.6(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺)₈O₂₀·9H₂O			1	276084	6
Barnesite ()*	Hewettite	Na₂V⁵⁺₆O₁₆·3H₂O			1	276085	15
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O			2	276084,276085	1184
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O			1	276085	566
Corvusite ()*	Straczekite	(Na,Ca,K)_1-x(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺,Fe²⁺)₈O₂₀·4H₂O			1	276085	79
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS			1	276082	4165
Devilline ()*	Devilline	CaCu₄(SO₄)₂(OH)₆·3H₂O			1	276085	366
Dickthomssenite ()*	None	MgV₂O₆·7H₂O			1	276085	6
Finchite ()*	Fritzscheite	Sr(UO₂)₂(V₂O₈)·5H₂O			1	276084	3
Francevillite ()*	Fritzscheite	Ba(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5H₂O			1	276084	43
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			2	276084,276085	6890
Hewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·9H₂O			1	276085	58
Lasalite ()*	Pascoite	Na₂Mg₂V₁₀O₂₈·20H₂O			1	276085	5
Magnesiopascoite ()*	Pascoite	Ca₂MgV⁵⁺₁₀O₂₈·16H₂O	0	0	1	276085	6
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			3	276080,276081,276083	12537
Melanovanadite ()*	None	Ca(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺)₄O₁₀·5H₂O			1	276085	20
Metahewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·3H₂O			1	276084	56
Metarossite ()*	None	CaV⁵⁺₂O₆·2H₂O			2	276084,276085	34
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Fritzscheite	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O			2	276084,276085	129
Montroseite ()*	Diaspore	(V³⁺,Fe²⁺,V⁴⁺)O(OH)			2	276084,276085	136
Navajoite ()*	Ajoite	(V⁵⁺,Fe³⁺)₁₀O₂₄·12H₂O			1	276084	11
Nolanite ()*	Nolanite	V³⁺₈Fe³⁺₂O₁₄(OH)₂			1	276085	19
Pandoraite-Ba ()*	Pandoraite	BaV⁴⁺₅V⁵⁺₂O₁₆·3H₂O			1	276084	1
Pandoraite-Ca ()*	Pandoraite	CaV⁴⁺₅V⁵⁺₂O₁₆·3H₂O			1	276084	1
Paramontroseite ()*	Ramsdellite	VO₂			1	276085	39
Pascoite ()*	Pascoite	Ca₃V⁵⁺₁₀O₂₈·17H₂O			2	276084,276085	78
Postite ()*	Pascoite	Mg(H₂O)₆Al₂(OH)₂(H₂O)₈(V₁₀O₂₈)·13H₂O	0	0	1	276085	4
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			2	276084,276085	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			1	276084	61156
Rakovanite ()*	Pascoite	(NH₄)₃Na₃[V₁₀O₂₈]·12H₂O	0	0	1	276085	4
Roscoelite ()*	Mica	KV³⁺₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			1	276085	253
Rossite ()*	None	Ca(VO₃)₂·4H₂O			1	276085	29
Santafeite ()*	None	(Ca,Sr,Na)₃(Mn²⁺,Fe³⁺)₂Mn⁴⁺₂(VO₄)₄(OH,O)₅·2H₂O			1	276085	5
Selenium ()*	Sulphur	Se			2	276084,276085	143
Simplotite ()*	None	CaV⁴⁺₄O₉·5H₂O			1	276085	9
Straczekite ()*	Straczekite	(Ca,K,Ba)(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺)₈O₂₀·3H₂O			1	276084	4
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O			2	276084,276085	628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂			2	276084,276085	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R070476	Vanadium Queen Mine, La Sal, La Sal District (Paradox Valley District), San Juan Co., Utah, USA	https://rruff.info/R070476

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