Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Blanding, San Juan Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 158322
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-158322.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blanding, San Juan Co., Utah, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Cottonwood Wash Area
Repete Mine
White Mesa Uranium Mill

Latitude: 37°24'40"N
Longitude: 109°11'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.411111111111,-109.18694444444

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.

Alum	Alunite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Corundum	Diaspore	Fluorite	Guilleminite	Gypsum
Kaolinite	Marcasite	Metavoltine	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Picromerite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile
Smectite-vermiculite	Sulphur	Wölsendorfite	Zircon

Andersonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Boltwoodite ()*	Boussingaultite ()*	Calcite ()*
Coffinite ()*	Ferroselite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Haynesite ()*
Hematite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Larisaite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Metavoltine ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Roscoelite ()*	Rutile ()*	Selenium ()*	Thénardite ()*	Tschermigite ()*
Tyuyamunite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*	Wölsendorfite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Fe H K Mg N Na O Pb S Se Si Ti U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alum Alunite Baryte Calcite Clay Corundum Diaspore Fluorite Guilleminite Gypsum
Kaolinite Marcasite Metavoltine Mica None Not in a structural group Picromerite Pyrite Quartz Rutile
Smectite-vermiculite Sulphur Wölsendorfite Zircon

29 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andersonite ()*	Not in a structural group	Na₂Ca(UO₂)(CO₃)₃·5-6H₂O	1	275833	47
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	275832,275833	11547
Boltwoodite ()*	None	(K,Na)(UO₂)(SiO₃OH)·1.5H₂O	1	275833	67
Boussingaultite ()*	Picromerite	(NH₄)₂Mg(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	1	275834	30
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	275832,275833	27770
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O	1	275832	566
Ferroselite ()*	Marcasite	FeSe₂	1	275833	51
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	275832	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	275832,275833	6890
Haynesite ()*	None	(UO₂)₃(Se⁴⁺O₃)₂(OH)₂·5H₂O	1	275833	1
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	275832	14640
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	275832	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	275832	5591
Larisaite ()*	Guilleminite	Na(H₃O)(UO₂)₃(Se⁴⁺O₃)₂O₂·4H₂O	1	275833	1
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	275833	5674
Metavoltine ()*	Metavoltine	K₂Na₆Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₆O₂(SO₄)₁₂·18H₂O	1	275834	78
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	2	275832,275833	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	275832	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	275832	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	275832,275833	61156
Roscoelite ()*	Mica	KV³⁺₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	275832	253
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	275832	5614
Selenium ()*	Sulphur	Se	1	275833	143
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	1	275834	299
Tschermigite ()*	Alum	(NH₄)Al(SO₄)₂·12H₂O	1	275834	81
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O	1	275832	628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	2	275832,275833	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	275833	890
Wölsendorfite ()*	Wölsendorfite	Pb₇(UO₂)₁₄O₁₉(OH)₄·12H₂O	1	275833	43

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060599	Repete Mine, Blanding, San Juan Co., Utah, USA	https://rruff.info/R060599
R060879	Repete Mine, Blanding, San Juan Co., Utah, USA	https://rruff.info/R060879

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