Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Ray Point District, Live Oak Co., Texas, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 20
Youngest recorded age at locality: 4.92

mindat Locality ID: 42249
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-42249.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ray Point District, Live Oak Co., Texas, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Felder Mine
Kopplin Mine
Lamprecht Mine
McLean Mine
Zamzow Mine

Latitude: 28°29'53"N
Longitude: 98°4'12"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 28.498055555556,-98.07

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.

Amorphous	Calcite	Fluorite	Gypsum	Marcasite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Sulphur
Zippeite	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Calcite ()*	Coffinite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Ilsemannite ()*
Jordisite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*
Selenium ()*	Umohoite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Zippeite ()*

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 Fe H K Mo O S Se Si Ti U

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: H K Mo O S Se U

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Calcite Fluorite Gypsum Marcasite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Sulphur
Zippeite Zircon

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	20	4.92	1	270648	2162
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			3	270645,270647,270649	27770
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O			4	270645,270646,270647,270649	566
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	20	4.92	1	270648	6890
Ilsemannite ()*	None	Mo₃O₈·nH₂O (?)			1	270645	123
Jordisite ()*	Amorphous	MoS₂			2	270645,270647	102
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	20	4.92	3	270645,270647,270648	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	20	4.92	0		5800
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	20	4.92	1	270648	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	20	4.92	4	270645,270647,270648,270649	39462
Selenium ()*	Sulphur	Se	20	4.92	0		143
Umohoite ()*	None	(UO₂)(MoO₄)·2H₂O	20	4.92	1	270648	16
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	20	4.92	5	270645,270646,270647,270648,270649	2718
Zippeite ()*	Zippeite	K₂[(UO₂)₄(SO₄)₂O₂(OH)₂](H₂O)₄	20	4.92	0		175

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Mo-00245	20	4.92		U-Pb, Pb-Pb, host								Umohoite	Mo	42250	McLean Mine, Ray Point District, Live Oak Co., Texas, USA		Ludwig et al. (1982); Goldhaber et al. (1983)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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