Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Hood River Co., Oregon, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1.65
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 131396
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-131396.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hood River Co., Oregon, USA": 31
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 31

Number of Child Localities: 31
Child Localities:
Cascade Locks Pit And Plant (Cascade Locks Pit And Pl)
Dee Pit
Dollar Pit 1920 TRS
Dukes Valley Quarry
East Pit
Evens Creek
George Property Quarry
Hanel Quarry
Hood River
Hood River Pit & Plant
Hood River Sand And Gravel Pit
Island Rock Quarry (Unnamed Deposit)
Jones Creek Pit 1812 TRS
Koberg Quarry (Unnamed Deposit)
Lava Pit
New Deal Occurrence
Old Dalles Pit
Pucci Drillhole
Quarry (MRDS - 10051913)
Quarry (MRDS - 10098947)
Raker Pint Pit1833 T.R.S.
Shell Rock Pit 11022 TRS
Shellrock Mtn
Smullen Quarry
Starvation Creek
Unnamed Stone - Crushed/Broken Pit (MRDS - 10176862)
Unnamed Stone - Crushed/Broken Pit (MRDS - 10215209)
Unnamed Stone - Crushed/Broken Pit (MRDS - 10274177)
Unnamed Stone - Crushed/Broken Pit (MRDS - 10274596)
Unspecified Chabazite Occurrence (1)
White River Pit (Unnamed Deposit)

Latitude: 45°36'4"N
Longitude: 121°35'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.601111111111,-121.59138888889

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	Amorphous	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Cristobalite	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Mordenite
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel

Calcite ()*	Cristobalite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Gold ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Mordenite ()*	Natroalunite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*

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 Au C Ca Fe H K Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Calcite Clay Copper Corundum Cristobalite Gypsum Kaolinite Mordenite
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Spinel

16 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
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			2	258560,258565	27770
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂			1	258560	453
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆			1	258565	4135
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O			1	258560	138
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1.65	0	1	258558	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			1	258560	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			1	258560	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	258560	5591
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O			1	258560	1271
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	258560	14899
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O			1	258560	1508
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O			1	258560	405
Natroalunite ()*	Alunite	NaAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			1	258560	128
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O			1	258560	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			3	258560,258565,258567	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			3	258551,258560,258565	61156

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
	NAVDAT-12832	1.65	0	0.83+0.82/-0.83					12832						150573	New Deal Occurrence, Hood River Co., Oregon, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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