Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Red Lakes Prospect (Turquoise Mine), Eddy Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 33595
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-33595.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Red Lakes Prospect (Turquoise Mine), Eddy Co., New Mexico, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Allophane	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Descloizite	Diaspore	Kaolinite	Malachite	None
Not in a structural group	Quartz	Scheelite	Spinel	Sulphur

Anglesite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Descloizite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Goethite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Hetaerolite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sulphur ()*
Wulfenite ()*

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 C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mn Mo O Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mn Mo O Pb S Si V Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Descloizite Diaspore Kaolinite Malachite None
Not in a structural group Quartz Scheelite Spinel Sulphur

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2734
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4979
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	3531
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	378
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	9895
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	7437
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1689
Hetaerolite ()*	Spinel	ZnMn³⁺₂O₄	73
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	12537
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	2045
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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