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:
Bajo Chacones, San José Province, Costa Rica

mindat Locality ID: 17973
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-17973.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bajo Chacones, San José Province, Costa Rica": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Fila San Francisco
Pedernal
Pozos

Latitude: 9°52'59"N
Longitude: 84°15'33"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 9.8830555555556,-84.259166666667

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.

Calcite	Chabazite	Diaspore	Gismondine	Mordenite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Thomsonite

Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Cowlesite ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Garronite-Ca ()*
Goethite ()*	Gonnardite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Mesolite ()*	Mordenite ()*
Offretite ()*	Okenite ()*	Scolecite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Todorokite ()*
Tschernichite ()*

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 Mn Na O Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chabazite Diaspore Gismondine Mordenite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Thomsonite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	45835,45836	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	1	45836	310
Cowlesite ()*	None	Ca(Al₂Si₃)O₁₀·5-6H₂O	1	45836	84
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	1	45836	138
Garronite-Ca ()*	Gismondine	Ca₃(Al₆Si₁₀O₃₂)·14H₂O	1	45836	66
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	45836	7437
Gonnardite ()*	Natrolite	(Na,Ca)₂(Si,Al)₅O₁₀·3H₂O	1	45835	167
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	45835	1271
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	2	45836,45837	425
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	1	45836	405
Offretite ()*	Not in a structural group	KCaMg(Si₁₃Al₅)O₃₆·15H₂O	1	45836	146
Okenite ()*	None	Ca₁₀Si₁₈O₄₆·18H₂O	1	45836	71
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	3	45835,45836,45837	390
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	2	45835,45836	452
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	1	45836	433
Tschernichite ()*	None	CaAl₂Si₆O₁₆·8H₂O	1	45836	7

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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