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:
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 26819
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-26819.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Mona Island
Monito Island (Moneta Island; Muna Muna Island)

Latitude: 18°7'46"N
Longitude: 67°55'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 18.129444444444,-67.924444444444

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	Apatite	Cerite	Gypsum	None

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 Ca H Mg O P S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Cerite Gypsum None

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Brushite ()*	Crandallite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Monetite ()*
Whitlockite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Brushite ()*	Gypsum	Ca(PO₃OH)·2H₂O	2	263374,263375	104
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	2	263374,263375	310
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	263374,263375	6890
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	2	263374,263375	367
Monetite ()*	None	Ca(PO₃OH)	2	263374,263375	21
Whitlockite ()*	Cerite	Ca₉Mg(PO₃OH)(PO₄)₆	2	263374,263375	104

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050512	Monito Island (Moneta Island; Muna Muna Island), Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA	https://rruff.info/R050512

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