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:
Harding Co., South Dakota, USA

mindat Locality ID: 20093
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-20093.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Harding Co., South Dakota, USA": 104
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 99

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Cave Hills
Daisy Mae No. 5 Prospect
Falcon Group
Harding County Meteorite
Karinen
Little Missouri River
Long Pine Hills
Ludlow
Ludlow Sandstone
Mendenhall Mine
North Cave Hills
Opeche Formation
Slim Buttes
South Cave Hills
Twin No. 2 Prospect
Whetsone Butte

Latitude: 45°36'40"N
Longitude: 103°34'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.611111111111,-103.58305555556

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.

Alunite	Analcime	Apatite	Autunite	Clay	Fluorite	Fritzscheite	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Marcasite
Meta-autunite	Natroautunite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Zircon

Abernathyite ()*	Analcime ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Autunite ()*	Carnotite ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*	Metanatroautunite ()*	Metanováčekite ()*	Metatorbernite ()*
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Metauranocircite-I ()*	Metazeunerite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Saléeite ()*	Torbernite ()*	Tyuyamunite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*
Zircon ()*

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 As Ba Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O P S Si U V Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Analcime Apatite Autunite Clay Fluorite Fritzscheite Gypsum Kaolinite Marcasite
Meta-autunite Natroautunite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Zircon

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Abernathyite ()*	Natroautunite	K(UO₂)(AsO₄)·3H₂O	4	265331,265349,265373,265393	16
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	4	265341,265343,265366,265424	1627
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	0		1588
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	3	265363,265373,265412	1272
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	11	265340,265377,265378,265379,265380,265381,265382,265383,265388,265415,265429	1184
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	265373	2740
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	265341,265393	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	265372	1398
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	4	265341,265343,265393,265424	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	265341	5591
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	265339	5674
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	1	265343	388
Metanatroautunite ()*	None	Na(UO₂)(PO₄)·3H₂O	4	265332,265343,265364,265402	8
Metanováčekite ()*	None	Mg(UO₂)₂(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	2	265331,265373	26
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	265343	443
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Fritzscheite	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	5	265338,265342,265373,265410,265434	129
Metauranocircite-I ()*	None	Ba(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	1	265393	38
Metazeunerite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	3	265331,265343,265373	182
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	265424	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	265337	61156
Saléeite ()*	None	Mg(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂(H₂O)₁₀	2	265331,265373	95
Torbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O	2	265331,265373	1059
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O	2	265340,265429	628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	265392	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	4	265331,265338,265373,265434	890
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	265373	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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