Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Pandora Mine, La Sal, La Sal District (Paradox Valley District), San Juan Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 29584
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29584.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pandora Mine, La Sal, La Sal District (Paradox Valley District), San Juan Co., Utah, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 38°18'33"N
Longitude: 109°13'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.309166666667,-109.22027777778

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.

Ajoite	Diaspore	Fluorite	Fritzscheite	Gypsum	Hewettite	None	Pandoraite	Pascoite	Pyrite
Quartz	Straczekite	Sulphur

Bariandite ()*	Carnotite ()*	Finchite ()*	Francevillite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Metahewettite ()*	Metarossite ()*	Metatyuyamunite ()*	Montroseite ()*	Navajoite ()*
Pandoraite-Ba ()*	Pandoraite-Ca ()*	Pascoite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Selenium ()*	Straczekite ()*	Tyuyamunite ()*	Uraninite ()*

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 Ba Ca Fe H K O S Se Si Sr U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba Ca Fe H K O S Se Si Sr U V

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Ajoite Diaspore Fluorite Fritzscheite Gypsum Hewettite None Pandoraite Pascoite Pyrite
Quartz Straczekite Sulphur

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Bariandite ()*	Straczekite	Al_0.6(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺)₈O₂₀·9H₂O	6
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	1184
Finchite ()*	Fritzscheite	Sr(UO₂)₂(V₂O₈)·5H₂O	3
Francevillite ()*	Fritzscheite	Ba(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5H₂O	43
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Metahewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·3H₂O	56
Metarossite ()*	None	CaV⁵⁺₂O₆·2H₂O	34
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Fritzscheite	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	129
Montroseite ()*	Diaspore	(V³⁺,Fe²⁺,V⁴⁺)O(OH)	136
Navajoite ()*	Ajoite	(V⁵⁺,Fe³⁺)₁₀O₂₄·12H₂O	11
Pandoraite-Ba ()*	Pandoraite	BaV⁴⁺₅V⁵⁺₂O₁₆·3H₂O	1
Pandoraite-Ca ()*	Pandoraite	CaV⁴⁺₅V⁵⁺₂O₁₆·3H₂O	1
Pascoite ()*	Pascoite	Ca₃V⁵⁺₁₀O₂₈·17H₂O	78
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Selenium ()*	Sulphur	Se	143
Straczekite ()*	Straczekite	(Ca,K,Ba)(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺)₈O₂₀·3H₂O	4
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O	628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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