Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Nelson Point Mine, Eastside Mines, Shiprock District, San Juan Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 48207
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-48207.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nelson Point Mine, Eastside Mines, Shiprock District, San Juan Co., New Mexico, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 36°42'55"N
Longitude: 109°2'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.715277777778,-109.03333333333

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.

Calcite	Diaspore	Gypsum	Hewettite	None	Pyrite	Straczekite

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 C Ca Fe H K Na O S V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Fe H K Na O S V

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Diaspore Gypsum Hewettite None Pyrite Straczekite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Corvusite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hendersonite ()*	Hewettite ()*
Metahewettite ()*	Metarossite ()*	Montroseite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Rossite ()*
Sherwoodite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Corvusite ()*	Straczekite	(Na,Ca,K)_1-x(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺,Fe²⁺)₈O₂₀·4H₂O	79
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Hendersonite ()*	Hewettite	Ca_1.3(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺)₆O₁₆·6H₂O	5
Hewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·9H₂O	58
Metahewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·3H₂O	56
Metarossite ()*	None	CaV⁵⁺₂O₆·2H₂O	34
Montroseite ()*	Diaspore	(V³⁺,Fe²⁺,V⁴⁺)O(OH)	136
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Rossite ()*	None	Ca(VO₃)₂·4H₂O	29
Sherwoodite ()*	None	Ca_5.5(AlV⁴⁺V⁵⁺₁₂O₃₉)·28H₂O	20

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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