Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Devils Hole Area, Fremont Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 278818
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-278818.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Devils Hole Area, Fremont Co., Colorado, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Big Bear Occurrence (Big Hole; Cactus Claims)
Bull Ridge Mine
Devils Hole Mine (Wild Rose Mine)
Devils Hole Quarry
Quarry (MRDS - 10142100)
Quarry (MRDS - 10288570)
Table Mountain
Unknown Feldspar Occurrence (MRDS - 10010892)
Unknown Feldspar Occurrence (MRDS - 10142731)

Latitude: 38°28'19"N
Longitude: 105°33'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.471944444444,-105.55777777778

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.

Amphibole	Beryl	Calcite	Clay	Columbite	Copper	Feldspar	Garnet	Malachite	Mica
None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Schoepite	Spinel	Tourmaline

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Azurite ()*	Beryl ()*	Calcite ()*
Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Cummingtonite ()*	Gold ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Schoepite ()*	Schorl ()*

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 Au B Be C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na Nb O Si U

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Beryl Calcite Clay Columbite Copper Feldspar Garnet Malachite Mica
None Not in a structural group Quartz Schoepite Spinel Tourmaline

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	188331	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	188331	2353
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	188331	5509
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	2	188330,188331	4286
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	188331	27770
Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺Nb₂O₆	1	188331	518
Cummingtonite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	188335	327
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	188331	30554
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	188331	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	188331	12537
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2	188330,188331	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	188330,188331	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	188331	61156
Schoepite ()*	Schoepite	(UO₂)₄O(OH)₆(H₂O)₆	1	188329	94
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	188331	2705

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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