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:
San José Province, Costa Rica

mindat Locality ID: 187363
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-187363.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "San José Province, Costa Rica": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Bajo Chacones
Cerro Estaquero
Ciudad Colón Clay Deposit
Guaitil
Picagres
Puriscal
San José
Toledo
Tranquerillas ("Tranquilleras")

Latitude: 9°48'40"N
Longitude: 84°12'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 9.8111111111111,-84.216388888889

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.

Analcime	Apophyllite	Calcite	Chabazite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Diaspore	Epidote	Gismondine
Mica	Mordenite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Thomsonite

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Copper ()*	Cowlesite ()*
Epidote ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Garronite-Ca ()*	Goethite ()*
Gonnardite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Mesolite ()*	Mordenite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Offretite ()*	Okenite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scolecite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*
Todorokite ()*	Tschernichite ()*	Vermiculite ()*

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 Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Na O Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Apophyllite Calcite Chabazite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Diaspore Epidote Gismondine
Mica Mordenite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Thomsonite

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	45841	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6	45835,45836,45840,45843,45846,45851	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	1	45836	310
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	45845	3846
Cowlesite ()*	None	Ca(Al₂Si₃)O₁₀·5-6H₂O	1	45836	84
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	45851	8173
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	2	45836,45841	138
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	1	45850	303
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	2	45835,45841	167
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	4	45835,45840,45841,45851	1271
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	3	45836,45837,45841	425
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	2	45836,45840	405
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	45839	17380
Offretite ()*	Not in a structural group	KCaMg(Si₁₃Al₅)O₃₆·15H₂O	1	45836	146
Okenite ()*	None	Ca₁₀Si₁₈O₄₆·18H₂O	1	45836	71
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	45839,45840,45850	61156
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	3	45835,45836,45837	390
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	5	45835,45836,45841,45843,45851	452
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	1	45836	433
Tschernichite ()*	None	CaAl₂Si₆O₁₆·8H₂O	2	45836,45848	7
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	1	45839	652

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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