Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Portales, Roosevelt Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 283751
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-283751.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Portales, Roosevelt Co., New Mexico, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Portales Valley Meteorite

Latitude: 34°10'29"N
Longitude: 103°17'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.174722222222,-103.295

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	Cerite	Copper	Iron	None	Pyroxene	Spinel

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: C Ca Cl Cr Cu Fe Mg Na Ni O P S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Cerite Copper Iron None Pyroxene Spinel

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Augite ()*	Chlorapatite ()*	Chromite ()*	Copper ()*	Graphite ()*
Iron ()*	Merrillite ()*	Taenite ()*	Tetrataenite ()*	Troilite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	246498	2060
Chlorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	246498	203
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	246498	3902
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	246498	3846
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	246498	2812
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	246498	1089
Merrillite ()*	Cerite	Ca₉NaMg(PO₄)₇	1	246498	230
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	246498	703
Tetrataenite ()*	None	FeNi	1	246498	116
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	246498	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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