Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Purple Diopside Mound (PDM), Rose Road, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence Co., New York, USA

mindat Locality ID: 257354
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-257354.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Purple Diopside Mound (PDM), Rose Road, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence Co., New York, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 44°12'5"N
Longitude: 75°14'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.201388888889,-75.234166666667

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.

Apatite	Calcite	Clay	Corundum	Feldspar	Mica	Natrolite	None	Prehnite	Pyrite
Pyroxene	Scapolite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Titanite	Tridymite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Calcite ()*	Corundum ()*	Diopside ()*	Fluorapatite ()*
Graphite ()*	Marialite ()*	Meionite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Nepheline ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*
Titanite ()*	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 C Ca Cl F Fe H K Mg Na O P S Si Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Cl F Fe H K Mg Na O P S Si Ti Zn Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Calcite Clay Corundum Feldspar Mica Natrolite None Prehnite Pyrite
Pyroxene Scapolite Sphalerite Spinel Titanite Tridymite Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	8803
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1797
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	4135
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2740
Graphite ()*	None	C	2812
Marialite ()*	Scapolite	Na₄Al₃Si₉O₂₄Cl	139
Meionite ()*	Scapolite	Ca₄Al₆Si₆O₂₄(CO₃)	176
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1236
Nepheline ()*	Tridymite	Na₃K(Al₄Si₄O₁₆)	884
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	2273
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1934
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	4899
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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