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:
Little Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood District (Alta District), Wasatch Mts, Salt Lake Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 245821
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-245821.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Little Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood District (Alta District), Wasatch Mts, Salt Lake Co., Utah, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Alta
Dromedary Peak

Latitude: 40°35'0"N
Longitude: 111°39'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.583333333333,-111.65

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	Amphibole	Aragonite	Arsenic	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite
Enargite	Ludwigite	Meneghinite	Molybdenite	None	Olivine	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite
Spinel	Stibnite	Talc	Tetrahedrite	Wollastonite	Wurtzite

Aikinite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Bismite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Bornite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Enargite ()*
Ferrimolybdite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Ludwigite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Periclase ()*	Plumbojarosite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Scheelite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Tremolite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

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: As Au B Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Mo S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amphibole Aragonite Arsenic Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite
Enargite Ludwigite Meneghinite Molybdenite None Olivine Pyrite Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite
Spinel Stibnite Talc Tetrahedrite Wollastonite Wurtzite

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aikinite ()*	Meneghinite	CuPbBiS₃	2	275689,275691	315
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	275691	2734
Bismite ()*	None	Bi₂O₃	2	275689,275691	214
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	275689	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	2	275689,275691	1935
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	275689	5516
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	275689,275691	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	275689	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	275691	4165
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	275689	910
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	1	275687	345
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	275687	1188
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	275689,275691	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	275691	30554
Ludwigite ()*	Ludwigite	Mg₂Fe³⁺O₂(BO₃)	1	275689	134
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	275689	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	0		5800
Periclase ()*	Rocksalt	MgO	1	275687	114
Plumbojarosite ()*	Alunite	Pb_0.5Fe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	275689	477
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	275689	39462
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	275689	4894
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	275689	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	275689	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	275687	3337
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	275689,275691	5317
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	275687	2562
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	275689	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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