Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Dog Valley, Garfield Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 245760
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-245760.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dog Valley, Garfield Co., Utah, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Dog Valley Prospects
Granite Knolls North Occurrence
Granite Knolls South Occurrence
Veater Gypsum Occurrence
Veater Mercury Occurrence (Dog Valley; Spry)

Latitude: 38°5'29"N
Longitude: 112°24'38"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.091388888889,-112.41055555556

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.

Amorphous	Fluorite	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Sphalerite	Spinel

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: Ca Cr F Fe H Hg O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Fluorite Gypsum None Not in a structural group Sphalerite Spinel

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Anhydrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Fluorite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Magnetite ()*	Metacinnabar ()*	Opal ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	272943	1588
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	272942	3902
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	2	272940,272944	2600
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	272940	9617
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	3	272940,272943,272944	6890
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	272940	14899
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	2	272940,272944	255
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	272944	2994

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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