Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Boling Dome (Boling Oil Field; Newgulf Sulfur Operations), Newgulf, Wharton Co., Texas, USA

mindat Locality ID: 30972
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-30972.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Boling Dome (Boling Oil Field; Newgulf Sulfur Operations), Newgulf, Wharton Co., Texas, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 29°16'55"N
Longitude: 95°53'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 29.281944444444,-95.883333333333

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Gypsum	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Sulphur

Alabandite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*
Celestine ()*	Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Hauerite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Strontianite ()*
Sulphur ()*

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: Ba C Ca Cl Fe H Mn Na O Pb S Sr Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba C Ca Cl Fe H Mn Na O Pb S Sr Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Gypsum Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite
Sulphur

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	312
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1252
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1398
Hauerite ()*	Pyrite	MnS₂	26
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	9056
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	589
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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