Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Black Hat Mine, Lion Canyon, La Sal District (Paradox Valley District), San Juan Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 38564
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-38564.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Black Hat Mine, Lion Canyon, La Sal District (Paradox Valley District), San Juan Co., Utah, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 38°20'15"N
Longitude: 109°3'37"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.3375,-109.06027777778

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.

Diaspore	Fluorite	Mica	None	Pascoite	Pyrite	Straczekite	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: Al Ca Fe H K Mg Na O S Si U V

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Diaspore Fluorite Mica None Pascoite Pyrite Straczekite Zircon

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Carnotite ()*	Coffinite ()*	Corvusite ()*	Melanovanadite ()*	Montroseite ()*
Postite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Roscoelite ()*	Uraninite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O			1184
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O			566
Corvusite ()*	Straczekite	(Na,Ca,K)_1-x(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺,Fe²⁺)₈O₂₀·4H₂O			79
Melanovanadite ()*	None	Ca(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺)₄O₁₀·5H₂O			20
Montroseite ()*	Diaspore	(V³⁺,Fe²⁺,V⁴⁺)O(OH)			136
Postite ()*	Pascoite	Mg(H₂O)₆Al₂(OH)₂(H₂O)₈(V₁₀O₂₈)·13H₂O	0	0	4
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			39462
Roscoelite ()*	Mica	KV³⁺₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			253
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂			2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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