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Locality Name:
Grantsville District (Third Term District), Stansbury Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA


mindat Locality ID: 37470
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-37470.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Grantsville District (Third Term District), Stansbury Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Ahlstrome Mine
Con Lela Prospects
Metal Queen Mine
Monarch And Dragon Mine
Rose Mine
Ruby Crystal Mine
Skull Valley Indian Reservation Prospects
Stansbury Prospect
Third Term Mine
Timpie Valley Mine

Latitude: 40°29'20"N
Longitude: 112°36'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.488888888889,-112.61361111111

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Cu Fe H Hg K Mg O Pb S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Cu Fe O Pb S 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllophaneAluniteAragoniteCalciteChalcopyriteCopperCorundumDiasporeMalachiteNone
PyriteRocksaltSphalerite

14 IMA Minerals at location:
Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chrysocolla  (*)Cinnabar  (*)
Copper  (*)Dolomite  (*)Galena  (*)Goethite  (*)Hematite  (*)
Jarosite  (*)Malachite  (*)Metacinnabar  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)3277755,277757,27776227770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)04979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2027198
Chrysocolla  (*)Allophane(Cu2-xAlx)H2-xSi2O5(OH)4·nH2O12777623531
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS2277760,2777642600
Copper  (*)CopperCu12777633846
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)24277755,277757,277762,2777639895
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2277757,27776224243
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)12777617437
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O32277761,27776314640
Jarosite  (*)AluniteKFe3+3(SO4)2(OH)62277762,2777632228
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2127776212537
Metacinnabar  (*)SphaleriteHgS2277760,277764255
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2039462



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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