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Locality Name:
Sloan District, Clark Co., Nevada, USA


mindat Locality ID: 36560
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36560.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sloan District, Clark Co., Nevada, USA": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Locality 1
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 14
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 15
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 16 (Red Turtle)
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 17 And 18
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 20
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 27 (Goodsprings Carnotite Prospect)
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 3
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 4
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 5
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 6
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 7
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Location 8
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Locations 9-13
Locality 21 (Sieber Claim)
Railroad Cuts
Sloan Limestone Quarry
Willabelle Claim (Locality 19; Suter Area)

Latitude: 35°53'31"N
Longitude: 115°15'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.891944444444,-115.25805555556

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 H K Mg O S Sr U V 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: O S Sr 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
BaryteCalciteNone

4 IMA Minerals at location:
Calcite  (*)Carnotite  (*)Celestine  (*)Dolomite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)123532427770
Carnotite  (*)NoneK2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O12353231184
Celestine  (*)BaryteSr(SO4)01252
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)212353249895



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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