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:
Opera Box Mine (Aztec Mine), Gypsum Valley, Montrose Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 116967
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-116967.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Opera Box Mine (Aztec Mine), Gypsum Valley, Montrose Co., Colorado, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 38°13'33"N
Longitude: 108°46'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.225833333333,-108.76861111111

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	Hewettite	None	Pascoite	Straczekite

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: Ca Fe H K Mg Na O Si U V

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Diaspore Hewettite None Pascoite Straczekite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Carnotite ()*	Corvusite ()*	Hewettite ()*	Magnesiopascoite ()*	Montroseite ()*
Rauvite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*

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
Corvusite ()*	Straczekite	(Na,Ca,K)_1-x(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺,Fe²⁺)₈O₂₀·4H₂O			79
Hewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·9H₂O			58
Magnesiopascoite ()*	Pascoite	Ca₂MgV⁵⁺₁₀O₂₈·16H₂O	0	0	6
Montroseite ()*	Diaspore	(V³⁺,Fe²⁺,V⁴⁺)O(OH)			136
Rauvite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂V₁₀O₂₈·16H₂O			32
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O			890

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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