Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Burnet Co., Texas, USA

mindat Locality ID: 29927
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29927.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Burnet Co., Texas, USA": 37
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 35

Number of Child Localities: 34
Child Localities:
Beaver Creek Prospect
Buchanan Dam
Burnet
Burnet - Liano District
Cactus Jack Pegmatite
Capitol Rock
Clear Creek Pegmatite
Dolostone Quarry
Dow Quarry
Dupres
Fluorite Prospect # 1
Fluorite Prospect # 2
Graphite Prospect
Hog Thief Bend Prospect
Hoover Point Lookout
Iron Prospect
Limekiln Creek
Long Mountain
Marble Falls
Milwhite Quarry
Pavitte Copper Prospect (Bailey Place; White Eagle Mine)
Rare - Earth Mine
Reed Prospect
Road Material Pit # 1
Road Material Pit # 2
Road Material Pit # 3
Rocky Creek
Sheridan Copper Prospect (includes Rainbow Prospect)
Silver Creek
Silver Creek Mine
Southwestern Graphite Mine
Spring Creek
Spring Creek Prospect
Unnamed Pegmatite

Latitude: 30°49'25"N
Longitude: 98°17'38"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 30.823611111111,-98.293888888889

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.

Alunite	Amorphous	Amphibole	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite
Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Corundum	Cristobalite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Malachite
Mica	Molybdenite	Monazite	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rowlandite
Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tengerite	Tetrahedrite	Zircon

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 As Be C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na Nb O P Pb S Sb Si Sr Ta Th Ti U Y Yb Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Amphibole Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite
Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Corundum Cristobalite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Malachite
Mica Molybdenite Monazite None Not in a structural group Olivine Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rowlandite
Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Tengerite Tetrahedrite Zircon

54 IMA Minerals at location:

Actinolite ()*	Albite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Behoite ()*
Beryl ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Euxenite-(Y) ()*
Fayalite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Graphite ()*
Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Ixiolite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*
Opal ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Polycrase-(Y) ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rowlandite-(Y) ()*	Rutile ()*	Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Spessartine ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tanteuxenite-(Y) ()*	Tengerite-(Y) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Thalénite-(Y) ()*	Thorianite ()*
Thorite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*	Uranopolycrase ()*	Vermiculite ()*
Xenotime-(Yb) ()*	Yttrialite-(Y) ()*	Yttrocrasite-(Y) ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	269870	3419
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	269852,269854	8803
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	269877	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	269870,269877	5509
Behoite ()*	Cristobalite	Be(OH)₂	1	269854	24
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1	269852	4286
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	269848,269878,269879	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	3	269850,269864,269876	1252
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	269878	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	269870	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	269870,269877,269882	27198
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	269870	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	4	269848,269855,269856,269879	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3	269853,269857,269877	8173
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	1	269852	414
Fayalite ()*	Olivine	Fe²⁺₂(SiO₄)	1	269849	371
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	269865	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9	269852,269854,269858,269859,269870,269877,269881,269882,269883	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	9	269848,269852,269861,269870,269877,269878,269879,269882,269883	24243
Graphite ()*	None	C	3	269851,269860,269880	2812
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	269854,269870	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	3	269852,269854,269877	5433
Ixiolite ()*	Columbite	(Ta_2/3Mn²⁺_1/3)O₂	1	269852	148
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	269854	2228
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	269854,269863,269877	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	269870	12537
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	4	269849,269852,269854,269870	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	3	269877,269882,269883	5800
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	269852	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	269852,269877	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2	269852,269869	2994
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	269853	2349
Polycrase-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(Ti,Nb)₂(O,OH)₆	2	269852,269854	121
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	269853,269870,269877,269880,269883	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	269849,269852,269853,269854,269870	61156
Rowlandite-(Y) ()*	Rowlandite	Fe²⁺Y₄(Si₂O₇)₂F₂	1	269854	8
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	269852	5614
Samarskite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	YFe³⁺Nb₂O₈	2	269852,269854	353
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2	269852,269854	1214
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	269877,269878,269882,269883	21482
Tanteuxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(TaTi)O₆	1	269852	16
Tengerite-(Y) ()*	Tengerite	Y₂(CO₃)₃·2-3H₂O	1	269854	24
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	269877	5317
Thalénite-(Y) ()*	None	Y₃Si₃O₁₀F	1	269854	26
Thorianite ()*	Fluorite	ThO₂	1	269852	236
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1	269852	1006
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	4	269850,269852,269854,269877	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	269852	890
Uranopolycrase ()*	Columbite	UTi₂O₆	1	269852	13
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	1	269872	652
Xenotime-(Yb) ()*	Zircon	Yb(PO₄)	1	269852	4
Yttrialite-(Y) ()*	None	Y₂Si₂O₇	1	269854	25
Yttrocrasite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	(Y,Th,Ca,U)(Ti,Fe)₂(O,OH)₆	2	269854,269884	8
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	269852,269854	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R130229	Clear Creek Pegmatite, Burnet Co., Texas, USA	https://rruff.info/R130229

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