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:
Sarmiento Department, Chubut Province, Argentina

mindat Locality ID: 239613
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-239613.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sarmiento Department, Chubut Province, Argentina": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Cerro Negro
Cerro Solo Deposit
Lago Colhué Huapi
Laguna Palacios
Sarmiento Petrified Forest

Latitude: 45°29'18"S
Longitude: 68°57'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): -45.488333333333,-68.957777777778

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.

Autunite	Baryte	Gypsum	Meta-autunite	None	Quartz

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: Ba Ca H K O P S Si Sr U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Autunite Baryte Gypsum Meta-autunite None Quartz

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Autunite ()*	Baryte ()*	Carnotite ()*	Celestine ()*	Gypsum ()*
Meta-autunite ()*	Quartz ()*	Tyuyamunite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	1	2371	1272
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	2373	11547
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	1	2371	1184
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	2373	1252
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	2372	6890
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	1	2371	388
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	2374	61156
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O	1	2371	628
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	2371	890

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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