Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Duchesne Co., Utah, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 51.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 45.1

mindat Locality ID: 19342
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19342.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Duchesne Co., Utah, USA": 58
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 49

Number of Child Localities: 43
Child Localities:
Antelope Canyon
Avintaquin Canyon
Blue Sky No. 1
Carter Oil Company Poulson No. 1 Well
Castle Peak District (Uninta Basin)
Conoco Duchesne 688-1
Country Boy Mine
Dragon Mine
Duchesne
Duchesne Iron Prospect
Farm Creek Prospects
Fish Creek Manganese Deposit
Fort Duchesne
Green River Formation
Heller Lake
Hilltop Iron Claim
Indian Canyon
Joseph Smith No. 1 Well
Lake Fork
Lake Fork River
Lightning Ridge
Little Emma Mine
Mapco Shrine Hospital No. 1 Well
Marine Minerals No. 2 Well
Miners Gulch
Moon Lake Iron Deposit
Myton
Paint Mine (Moon Lake Mine)
Rainbow Mine
Red Creek
Red Ledge Iron Claim
Rock Creek
South Flank Uinta Mts
Tabby Creek
Tungsten Pass Prospect (Red Castle Prospect)
Unknown Silver - Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10275482)
Unknown Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10020524)
Utah Department Of Highways Pit No. 07005
Utah Department Of Highways Pit No. 07023
Western Phosphate
Wolf Creek
Wolf Creek Phosphate Deposit
Yellow-Bird Mine

Latitude: 40°23'51"N
Longitude: 110°31'34"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.3975,-110.52611111111

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.

Amphibole	Analcime	Apatite	Burbankite	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Feldspar
Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	None	Northupite	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz
Rhabdophane	Rocksalt	Sepiolite	Sphalerite	Talc

Aegirine ()*	Analcime ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Bassanite ()*	Burbankite ()*
Calcite ()*	Carnotite ()*	Dawsonite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Eitelite ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*
Hectorite ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Leucosphenite ()*	Loughlinite ()*
Magnesio-arfvedsonite ()*	Magnesio-riebeckite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Nahcolite ()*
Nordstrandite ()*	Northupite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Reedmergnerite ()*
Riebeckite ()*	Searlesite ()*	Sepiolite ()*	Shortite ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stevensite ()*	Talc ()*	Thermonatrite ()*	Trona ()*
Wegscheiderite ()*

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: Ag Al Au B Ba C Ca Ce Cl Cu F Fe H K Li Mg Na O P S Si Sr Ti U V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Analcime Apatite Burbankite Calcite Clay Copper Corundum Diaspore Feldspar
Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite Mica None Northupite Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz
Rhabdophane Rocksalt Sepiolite Sphalerite Talc

41 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aegirine ()*	Pyroxene	NaFe³⁺Si₂O₆	51.3	45.1	2	272299,272304	1022
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	51.3	45.1	3	272299,272303,272304	1627
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	51.3	45.1	2	272299,272305	1588
Bassanite ()*	Rhabdophane	Ca(SO₄)·0.5H₂O	51.3	45.1	1	272299	82
Burbankite ()*	Burbankite	(Na,Ca)₃(Sr,Ba,Ce)₃(CO₃)₅	51.3	45.1	1	272299	52
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			3	272296,272303,272335	27770
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O			1	272286	1184
Dawsonite ()*	None	NaAl(CO₃)(OH)₂	51.3	45.1	1	272299	90
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂			2	272280,272303	9895
Eitelite ()*	None	Na₂Mg(CO₃)₂	51.3	45.1	6	272282,272299,272303,272304,272311,272312	20
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	51.3	45.1	1	272299	2740
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			2	272296,272301	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			1	272327	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			3	272303,272305,272322	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl			3	272303,272311,272312	1398
Hectorite ()*	Clay	Na_0.3(Mg,Li)₃Si₄O₁₀(F,OH)₂·nH₂O	51.3	45.1	1	272299	19
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			8	272295,272296,272301,272302,272315,272318,272321,272336	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	272303	5591
Leucosphenite ()*	None	Na₄BaTi₂B₂Si₁₀O₃₀	51.3	45.1	3	272282,272299,272304	19
Loughlinite ()*	Clay	Na₂Mg₃Si₆O₁₆·8H₂O	51.3	45.1	1	272299	6
Magnesio-arfvedsonite ()*	Amphibole	NaNa₂(Mg₄Fe³⁺)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	51.3	45.1	3	272280,272291,272299	79
Magnesio-riebeckite ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Mg₃Fe³⁺₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	51.3	45.1	3	272299,272304,272311	93
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			4	272285,272286,272318,272322	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	51.3	45.1	2	272299,272303	17380
Nahcolite ()*	None	NaH(CO₃)	51.3	45.1	4	272299,272303,272304,272311	78
Nordstrandite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	51.3	45.1	1	272299	64
Northupite ()*	Northupite	Na₃Mg(CO₃)₂Cl	51.3	45.1	3	272299,272303,272311	31
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	51.3	45.1	1	272299	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			2	272280,272303	61156
Reedmergnerite ()*	Feldspar	NaBSi₃O₈	51.3	45.1	4	272282,272299,272304,272311	9
Riebeckite ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Fe²⁺₃Fe³⁺₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	51.3	45.1	1	272299	375
Searlesite ()*	None	NaBSi₂O₅(OH)₂	51.3	45.1	4	272282,272299,272303,272304	34
Sepiolite ()*	Sepiolite Clay	Mg₄Si₆O₁₅(OH)₂·6H₂O			1	272303	241
Shortite ()*	None	Na₂Ca₂(CO₃)₃	51.3	45.1	6	272282,272299,272303,272304,272311,272312	37
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			1	272327	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			1	272336	21482
Stevensite ()*	Clay	(Ca,Na)_xMg_3-ySi₄O₁₀(OH)₂			1	272303	57
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂			1	272303	3337
Thermonatrite ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·H₂O	51.3	45.1	1	272299	64
Trona ()*	None	Na₃(HCO₃)(CO₃)·2H₂O	51.3	45.1	3	272299,272303,272311	129
Wegscheiderite ()*	None	Na₅H₃(CO₃)₄			2	272303,272311	8

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Scott-GSAM120_54-0001	51.3	45.1	51.3-45.1	40Ar-39Ar	Date of evaporation		biotite					Hectorite		37759	Green River Formation, Duchesne Co., Utah, USA	Green River Formation	Smith et al. 2008	10.1130/B26073.1	GSAM120_54	p. 54 "Evaporative (underfilled) lakes occurred"

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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