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Locality Name:
Stansbury Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA


mindat Locality ID: 39012
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39012.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Stansbury Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Amatrice Hill
Free Coinage District
Grantsville
Grantsville District (Third Term District)
Mack Canyon
Manning Canyon Shale
Muskrat Canyon
North Willow Canyon
Salt Mountain
Timpie Canyon (Free Coinage)

Latitude: 40°34'39"N
Longitude: 112°36'17"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.5775,-112.60472222222
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: Al Au C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K Mg Na O P Pb S Sb Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllophaneAluniteAragoniteCalciteChalcopyriteClayCopperCorrensiteCorundumDiaspore
FeldsparKaoliniteMalachiteMicaNonePyritePyrophyllitePyroxeneQuartzRocksalt
SphaleriteTetrahedriteWardite

28 IMA Minerals at location:
Anorthite  (*)Augite  (*)Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)
Chrysocolla  (*)Cinnabar  (*)Copper  (*)Crandallite  (*)Dolomite  (*)
Galena  (*)Gibbsite  (*)Goethite  (*)Gold  (*)Hematite  (*)
Jarosite  (*)Kaolinite  (*)Malachite  (*)Metacinnabar  (*)Millisite  (*)
Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrophyllite  (*)Quartz  (*)Rectorite  (*)
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)Variscite  (*)Wardite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Anorthite  (*)FeldsparCa(Al2Si2O8)4277765,277767,277768,2777691036
Augite  (*)Pyroxene(Ca,Mg,Fe)2Si2O612777682060
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)5277753,277755,277757,277762,27777227770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)2277752,2777544979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2127775427198
Chrysocolla  (*)Allophane(Cu2-xAlx)H2-xSi2O5(OH)4·nH2O12777623531
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS3277760,277764,2777712600
Copper  (*)CopperCu12777633846
Crandallite  (*)AluniteCaAl3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)61277751310
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)26277755,277757,277762,277763,277771,2777729895
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS4277752,277754,277757,27776224243
Gibbsite  (*)NoneAl(OH)31277766504
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)12777617437
Gold  (*)CopperAu127775230554
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O32277761,27776314640
Jarosite  (*)AluniteKFe3+3(SO4)2(OH)62277762,2777632228
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)412777665591
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)23277754,277762,27777212537
Metacinnabar  (*)SphaleriteHgS2277760,277764255
Millisite  (*)WarditeNaCaAl6(PO4)4(OH)9·3H2O127775112
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2127776617380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23277751,277752,27775439462
Pyrophyllite  (*)Clay PyrophylliteAl2Si4O10(OH)21277766771
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO24277751,277753,277771,27777261156
Rectorite  (*)Corrensite Clay(Na,Ca)Al4(Si,Al)8O20(OH)4·2H2O127776649
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1312777725317
Variscite  (*)NoneAl(PO4)·2H2O1277751301
Wardite  (*)WarditeNaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4·2H2O127775158


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
SampleSource LocalityReference URL
R070437Amatrice Hill, Stansbury Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USAhttps://rruff.info/R070437

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