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Locality Name:
Turkey Creek District, Pueblo Co., Colorado, USA


mindat Locality ID: 275298
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-275298.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Turkey Creek District, Pueblo Co., Colorado, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Dinosaur No. 1 Claim
Dry Creek Canyon No. 2 Mine
E. D. Freeman Mine
General Refractories Company Mine
George Avery Ranch Mine (Kathryn Mine; Kathryn No. 2 Incline; Mineral Rights Mine; George Avery Mine)
Meadow Mine (Meadow Walker Mine)
Nellie - Helen Mine
Number Two
Plastic No. 1 Mine
Snowden
Spring Canyon Mines
Stone City
Stone City Clay Deposit
Unknown Clay - Fire (Refractory; MRDS - 10018378)
Unknown Clay (MRDS - 10143446)
Unknown Gypsum - Anhydrite (MRDS - 10117961)
Unknown Gypsum - Anhydrite (MRDS - 10215675)
Unknown Gypsum - Anhydrite Occurrence (MRDS - 10018374)
Unknown Quarry (MRDS - 10134925)
Unknown Quarry (MRDS - 10264474)
Unknown Quarry (MRDS - 10264796)
Wands Mine

Latitude: 38°28'4"N
Longitude: 104°50'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.467777777778,-104.84861111111
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 K O S Si U V 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ClayFluoriteGypsumKaoliniteNoneZircon

6 IMA Minerals at location:
Carnotite  (*)Coffinite  (*)Gypsum  (*)Kaolinite  (*)Tyuyamunite  (*)
Uraninite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Carnotite  (*)NoneK2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O11952711184
Coffinite  (*)ZirconU(SiO4)·nH2O1195271566
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O11952846890
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)411952795591
Tyuyamunite  (*)NoneCa(UO2)2(VO4)2·5-8H2O1195271628
Uraninite  (*)FluoriteUO211952712718


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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