Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Ritter, Grant Co., Oregon, USA

mindat Locality ID: 19985
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19985.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ritter, Grant Co., Oregon, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Eightmile Creek
Middle Fork Cliffs
Ritter Hot Springs
Roadside Quarry
Sixmile Creek
Stage Coach Road
Three Mile Creek
Upper Ritter Quarry

Latitude: 44°53'49"N
Longitude: 119°8'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.896944444444,-119.1475

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	Copper	Gyrolite	Harmotome	Marcasite	Natrolite	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Stilbite	Thomsonite	Tobermorite

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*	Copper ()*	Cowlesite ()*
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Gonnardite ()*	Gyrolite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Offretite ()*	Paulingite-Ca ()*	Phillipsite-Ca ()*
Pyrite ()*	Scolecite ()*	Stellerite ()*	Tacharanite ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*
Tobermorite ()*

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 Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Apophyllite Calcite Chabazite Copper Gyrolite Harmotome Marcasite Natrolite None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Stilbite Thomsonite Tobermorite

21 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	4	258196,258197,258198,258202	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	258196,258197,258198,258200,258202	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	1	258201	310
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	258198,258202	3846
Cowlesite ()*	None	Ca(Al₂Si₃)O₁₀·5-6H₂O	2	258198,258202	84
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	2	258198,258202	303
Gonnardite ()*	Natrolite	(Na,Ca)₂(Si,Al)₅O₁₀·3H₂O	1	258202	167
Gyrolite ()*	Gyrolite	NaCa₁₆(Si₂₃Al)O₆₀(OH)₈·14H₂O	4	258196,258197,258198,258202	142
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	258196	1271
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	258196	5674
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	4	258196,258197,258198,258202	425
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	2	258197,258198	1236
Offretite ()*	Not in a structural group	KCaMg(Si₁₃Al₅)O₃₆·15H₂O	3	258196,258198,258202	146
Paulingite-Ca ()*	None	(Ca,K,Na,Ba, )₁₀(Si,Al)₄₂O₈₄·34H₂O	1	258201	2
Phillipsite-Ca ()*	Harmotome	Ca₃(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	1	258201	75
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	258196,258197,258202	39462
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	1	258202	390
Stellerite ()*	Stilbite	Ca₄(Si₂₈Al₈)O₇₂·28H₂O	3	258196,258197,258201	189
Tacharanite ()*	None	Ca₁₂Al₂Si₁₈O₃₃(OH)₃₆	2	258196,258198	47
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	5	258196,258197,258198,258199,258202	452
Tobermorite ()*	Tobermorite	Ca₄Si₆O₁₇(H₂O)₂·(Ca·3H₂O)	1	258202	114

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060457	Ritter, Grant Co., Oregon, USA	https://rruff.info/R060457

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