Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Quartzsite, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 44395
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-44395.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Quartzsite, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Apache Mine
Dome Rock Mts
Success Mine
Unspecified Locality

Latitude: 33°37'21"N
Longitude: 114°3'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.6225,-114.06305555556

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.

Alunite	Andalusite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Corundum	Dumortierite	Gypsum	Lazulite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrochlore	Pyrophyllite	Rutile	Sapphirine	Stibnite

Andalusite ()*	Cervantite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dumortierite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hematite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Lazulite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*	Rutile ()*
Sapphirine ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Stibiconite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Svanbergite ()*
Tenorite ()*

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 B Ca Cu Fe H Mg O P S Sb Si Sr Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Andalusite Chalcopyrite Clay Corundum Dumortierite Gypsum Lazulite None Not in a structural group
Pyrochlore Pyrophyllite Rutile Sapphirine Stibnite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	140625	1310
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	1	140626	352
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	140627	27198
Dumortierite ()*	Dumortierite	AlAl₆BSi₃O₁₈	1	140625	231
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	140625	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	140628	14640
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	140625	1507
Lazulite ()*	Lazulite	MgAl₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂	1	140625	232
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2	140625,140628	771
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	140625	5614
Sapphirine ()*	Sapphirine	Mg₄(Mg₃Al₉)O₄[Si₃Al₉O₃₆]	1	140625	129
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	1	140625	1516
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	1	140626	446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	140626	3418
Svanbergite ()*	Alunite	SrAl₃(SO₄)(PO₄)(OH)₆	1	140628	105
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	140627	1101

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050553	Quartzsite, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA	https://rruff.info/R050553

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