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:
Thorpe Hills, Utah Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 158333
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-158333.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Thorpe Hills, Utah Co., Utah, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Manning Canyon Shale
Unnamed Prospect

Latitude: 40°9'59"N
Longitude: 112°8'45"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.166388888889,-112.14583333333

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.

Adelite	Calcite	Clay	Corrensite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrophyllite
Quartz	Volborthite

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 H K Na O S Si V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Adelite Calcite Clay Corrensite Kaolinite Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrophyllite
Quartz Volborthite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Gibbsite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rectorite ()*	Sulvanite ()*
Tangeite ()*	Volborthite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	278271	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	278271	27770
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	1	278270	504
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	278270	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	278271	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	278270	17380
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	278270	771
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	278271	61156
Rectorite ()*	Corrensite Clay	(Na,Ca)Al₄(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·2H₂O	1	278270	49
Sulvanite ()*	None	Cu₃VS₄	1	278271	48
Tangeite ()*	Adelite	CaCu(VO₄)(OH)	1	278271	60
Volborthite ()*	Volborthite	Cu₃V₂O₇(OH)₂·2H₂O	1	278271	155

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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