Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Ector Co., Texas, USA

mindat Locality ID: 28343
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-28343.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ector Co., Texas, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Jones Bros Pit - 2
Odessa
Penwell

Latitude: 31°46'47"N
Longitude: 102°28'5"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.779722222222,-102.46805555556

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	Atacamite	Auricupride	Copper	Feldspar	Haxonite	Iron	None	Pentlandite	Perovskite
Pyroxene	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scacchite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Wurtzite

Alabandite ()*	Albite ()*	Augite ()*	Awaruite ()*	Chlorapatite ()*
Chromite ()*	Cohenite ()*	Copper ()*	Daubréelite ()*	Enstatite ()*
Glauberite ()*	Graphite ()*	Halite ()*	Haxonite ()*	Heazlewoodite ()*
Hibbingite ()*	Iron ()*	Lawrencite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Rutile ()*	Schreibersite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Taenite ()*	Troilite ()*
Wurtzite ()*

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 Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Na Ni O P S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Cl Na O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Atacamite Auricupride Copper Feldspar Haxonite Iron None Pentlandite Perovskite
Pyroxene Rocksalt Rutile Scacchite Sphalerite Spinel Wurtzite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	1	270103	312
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	270103	8803
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	270104	2060
Awaruite ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Ni₃Fe	1	270103	166
Chlorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	270103	203
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	270103	3902
Cohenite ()*	Perovskite	CFe₃	1	270103	77
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	270103	3846
Daubréelite ()*	Spinel	FeCr₂S₄	1	270103	157
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	270103	944
Glauberite ()*	None	Na₂Ca(SO₄)₂	0		137
Graphite ()*	None	C	2	270103,270104	2812
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	0		1398
Haxonite ()*	Haxonite	(Fe,Ni)₂₃C₆	1	270103	26
Heazlewoodite ()*	None	Ni₃S₂	1	270103	205
Hibbingite ()*	Atacamite	Fe²⁺₂(OH)₃Cl	1	270103	13
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	2	270103,270104	1089
Lawrencite ()*	Scacchite	FeCl₂	1	270103	30
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	270103	2349
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	270103	1512
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	270103	5614
Schreibersite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)₃P	2	270103,270104	374
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	270103	21482
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	2	270103,270104	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	2	270103,270104	1044
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	1	270103	372

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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