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Locality Name:
La Sal Mts, Grand Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 158310
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-158310.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "La Sal Mts, Grand Co., Utah, USA": 30
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 26

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Alamo Adit Occurrence
Little Dot Occurrence
Mineral Mtn Area
North Mountain
Unknown Vanadium - Uranium - Radium (MRDS - 10020209)
Venus Mine

Latitude: 38°32'13"N
Longitude: 109°14'56"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.536944444444,-109.24888888889

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.

Allophane	Amphibole	Calcite	Cancrinite-sodalite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Feldspar	Fluorite
Hewettite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sodalite	Spinel
Straczekite

Actinolite ()*	Aegirine ()*	Aegirine-augite ()*	Albite ()*	Augite ()*
Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Carnotite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Corvusite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Halite ()*	Hedenbergite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hewettite ()*	Ilsemannite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Nosean ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Siderite ()*	Sodalite ()*

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 Cl Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O S Si U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amphibole Calcite Cancrinite-sodalite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Diaspore Feldspar Fluorite
Hewettite Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Sodalite Spinel
Straczekite

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	3	273381,273383,273386	3419
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	1	273374	1022
Aegirine-augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Fe³⁺,Mg,Fe²⁺)Si₂O₆	1	273375	286
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	273374,273375	8803
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	2	273374,273375	2060
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	4	273376,273378,273385,273388	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	5	273368,273376,273378,273385,273396	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	273381,273385,273387	27770
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	3	273377,273394,273395	1184
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	8	273368,273372,273378,273381,273382,273385,273388,273390	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	6	273368,273372,273381,273385,273390,273396	3531
Corvusite ()*	Straczekite	(Na,Ca,K)_1-x(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺,Fe²⁺)₈O₂₀·4H₂O	1	273377	79
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	273381,273385	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	273385	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	11	273370,273371,273382,273383,273384,273386,273387,273389,273390,273391,273394	30554
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	273382	1398
Hedenbergite ()*	Pyroxene	CaFe²⁺Si₂O₆	5	273374,273381,273383,273385,273386	741
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	8	273367,273368,273372,273378,273380,273381,273385,273396	14640
Hewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·9H₂O	1	273377	58
Ilsemannite ()*	None	Mo₃O₈·nH₂O (?)	1	273377	123
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	273380	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	13	273367,273368,273372,273376,273378,273380,273381,273382,273383,273385,273387,273388,273396	12537
Nosean ()*	Sodalite Cancrinite-sodalite	Na₈(Si₆Al₆)O₂₄(SO₄)·H₂O	1	273375	75
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	13	273370,273372,273376,273378,273381,273382,273383,273385,273386,273388,273390,273391,273394	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	12	273370,273371,273372,273378,273381,273383,273385,273387,273390,273391,273394,273396	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	273387	6417
Sodalite ()*	Cancrinite-sodalite Sodalite	Na₄(Si₃Al₃)O₁₂Cl	1	273375	444

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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