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Locality Name:
North Dakota, USA

mindat Locality ID: 17218
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-17218.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "North Dakota, USA": 115
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 80

Number of Child Localities: 54
Child Localities:
Adams Co.
Badlands
Barnes Co.
Benson Co.
Billings Co.
Bottineau Co.
Bowman Co.
Burke Co.
Burleigh Co.
Cass Co.
Cavalier Co.
Dickey Co.
Divide Co.
Dunn Co.
Eddy Co.
Emmons Co.
Foster Co.
Golden Valley Co.
Grand Forks Co
Grant Co.
Griggs Co.
Hettinger Co.
Kidder Co.
LaMoure Co.
Logan Co.
McHenry Co.
Mcintosh Co.
McKenzie Co.
McLean Co.
Mercer Co.
Morton Co.
Mountrail Co.
Nelson Co.
Oliver Co.
Pembina Co.
Pierce Co.
Ramsey Co.
Ransom Co.
Renville Co.
Richland Co.
Rolette Co.
Sargent Co.
Sheridan Co.
Sioux Co.
Slope Co.
Stark Co.
Steele Co.
Stutsman Co.
Towner Co.
Traill Co.
Walsh Co.
Ward Co.
Wells Co.
Williams Co.

Latitude: 47°25'53"N
Longitude: 101°59'54"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.431388888889,-101.99833333333

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.

Amorphous	Apatite	Aragonite	Calcite	Cerite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Erionite	Gypsum
Iron	Kaolinite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite
Spinel	Tridymite

Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chlorapatite ()*	Chromite ()*
Copper ()*	Diopside ()*	Erionite-Ca ()*	Erionite-Na ()*	Glauberite ()*
Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Ice ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Iron ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Merrillite ()*	Mirabilite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Ranciéite ()*	Siderite ()*	Spinel ()*
Sylvite ()*	Taenite ()*	Tetrataenite ()*	Thénardite ()*	Troilite ()*

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 Cl Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Na Ni O P S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Calcite Cerite Clay Copper Corundum Erionite Gypsum
Iron Kaolinite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Smectite-vermiculite
Spinel Tridymite

30 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	2	253370,253374	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	253368	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	253368,253403,253429,253452	27770
Chlorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	253463	203
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	253463	3902
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	253463	3846
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	253463	4135
Erionite-Ca ()*	Erionite	Ca₅[Si₂₆Al₁₀O₇₂]·30H₂O	3	253387,253456,253461	31
Erionite-Na ()*	Erionite	Na₁₀[Si₂₆Al₁₀O₇₂]·30H₂O	1	253387	13
Glauberite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(SO₄)₂	1	253436	137
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	8	253374,253377,253380,253389,253403,253428,253429,253461	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	22	253360,253365,253370,253373,253374,253382,253386,253394,253398,253403,253411,253413,253421,253424,253429,253436,253441,253449,253456,253461,253471,253474	1398
Ice ()*	Amorphous Tridymite	H₂O	1	253377	59
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	253463	5433
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	2	253401,253463	1089
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	5	253404,253432,253433,253458,253465	5591
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	2	253374,253403	5674
Merrillite ()*	Cerite	Ca₉NaMg(PO₄)₇	1	253463	230
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	4	253384,253385,253438,253439	223
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	2	253380,253396	1508
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	253372	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	16	253368,253375,253388,253395,253398,253403,253408,253413,253416,253419,253420,253429,253431,253446,253461,253474	61156
Ranciéite ()*	None	(Ca,Mn²⁺)_0.2(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂·0.6H₂O	2	253372,253452	177
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	253368	6417
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	253463	1934
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	3	253370,253374,253386	275
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	2	253401,253463	703
Tetrataenite ()*	None	FeNi	1	253463	116
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	2	253384,253436	299
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	253463	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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