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:
Orchard, Fort Bend Co., Texas, USA

mindat Locality ID: 250605
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-250605.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Orchard, Fort Bend Co., Texas, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Orchard Dome (Orchard Dome Oil And Gas Field)

Latitude: 29°34'17"N
Longitude: 95°56'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 29.571388888889,-95.948611111111

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Fluorite	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Sulphur

Anglesite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Hauerite ()*
Hydrozincite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*

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: C Ca Cl F Fe H Mn Na O Pb S Si Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Fluorite Gypsum None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Sulphur

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	270174	2734
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	270174	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	270174	3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	270174	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	270174	1252
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	270174	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	270174	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	270174	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	270175	1398
Hauerite ()*	Pyrite	MnS₂	1	270174	26
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	270174	1066
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	270174	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	270174	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	270174	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	270175	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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