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Locality Name:
Dry Valley Area, San Juan Co., Utah, USA


mindat Locality ID: 38526
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-38526.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dry Valley Area, San Juan Co., Utah, USA": 49
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 49

Number of Child Localities: 49
Child Localities:
Black Bottom Mine
Black Hawk 1 - 2 (Midnight)
Black Hawk 1 & 4 Prospect
Blue Clay
Bluebird - Suspenders Mine
Bluebird Group Greenfly
Bonanza Group (Wind Fall)
Bonanza Group East Mine
Bonanza Occurrence (Western Most Mine)
Bow Mine
C W Prospect
Cap Mine (Horse Fly; Payoff)
Columbus Incline (Christine Mine; Humbug Mine)
Frisco Mine (Moreno)
Frisco Twin Mine (Dugway No. 1)
Happy Jack Mine (Peter No. 1 - 4)
Humbug Christine Mine
Johnnie Mine Prospect
Liberty Occurrence
Little Joe Occurrence
Locust
Lone Star
Lookout Mine (Slush No. 105)
Loya Ray
Navajo 1 & 2
Nielson 1 Prospect
Nielson 2 Prospect
Nielson 3 Occurrence
Nipples Mine
Nonesuch (Big Lead; Sun Up)
Old Rattler (Shale; Lucky Day; Oscar)
Peach 1
Peach 2
Popeye
Rainy Weather
Rim Shaft
Sage Prospect
Standard Mine
Stateline
Summit Point Prospect
Sunny Day
Sunny Side Valleyview
Sunset Mine (Sunset-Sunset High-Geneva)
Unknown Uranium (MRDS - 10130054)
Unknown Uranium (MRDS - 10203075)
Unknown Vanadium - Uranium (MRDS - 10015041)
Unknown Vanadium - Uranium (MRDS - 10015092)
Ute Mine (Locust - Hopper)
Wilson Mine

Latitude: 38°2'46"N
Longitude: 109°14'32"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.046111111111,-109.24222222222
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: Ca H K O S U V 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
FluoriteGypsumNoneZippeite

5 IMA Minerals at location:
Carnotite  (*)Gypsum  (*)Tyuyamunite  (*)Uraninite  (*)Zippeite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Carnotite  (*)NoneK2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O19275950,275955,275956,275958,275961,275962,275963,275964,275966,275968,275971,275973,275978,275979,275987,275991,275995,275996,2759971184
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O2275955,2759716890
Tyuyamunite  (*)NoneCa(UO2)2(VO4)2·5-8H2O5275961,275962,275991,275996,275997628
Uraninite  (*)FluoriteUO212759552718
Zippeite  (*)ZippeiteK2[(UO2)4(SO4)2O2(OH)2](H2O)41275964175


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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