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:
Big Lue Mts, Grant Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 49316
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-49316.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Big Lue Mts, Grant Co., New Mexico, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Coal Creek

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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	Clay	Coronadite	Corundum	Mica	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Pseudobrookite	Quartz
Titanite	Tridymite

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 Ba C Ca Fe H K Mg Mn Na O Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca H Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Clay Coronadite Corundum Mica Natrolite None Not in a structural group Pseudobrookite Quartz
Titanite Tridymite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hollandite ()*	Mesolite ()*	Offretite ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Pseudobrookite ()*	Quartz ()*	Titanite ()*	Tridymite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	244811	27770
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	244811	14640
Hollandite ()*	Coronadite	Ba(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	1	244811	243
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	0		425
Offretite ()*	Not in a structural group	KCaMg(Si₁₃Al₅)O₃₆·15H₂O	1	244811	146
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	244811	2273
Pseudobrookite ()*	Pseudobrookite	(Fe³⁺₂Ti)O₅	1	244811	164
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	244811	61156
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	244811	4899
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	244811	458

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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