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Locality Name:
Durango Area, La Plata Co., Colorado, USA


mindat Locality ID: 50044
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50044.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Durango Area, La Plata Co., Colorado, USA": 35
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 35

Number of Child Localities: 35
Child Localities:
Atom Claims 1-9
Bakers Bridge
Bakers Ridge Placer (Animas River Placer?)
Bell Quarry
Boston
Castle No. 2
Castle No. 4
Champion Gold; Inc.
City Mine
Good Hope - Nevada Group (Lady Madrine; Flicker Group; Claims: Good Hope)
H. & H. Mining Company
Hazel Mine Group
Lightner Creek Group
Maine
McCartney Group
Miller Mountain
Morning Star
Ohio - Indiana
Peerless
Pro Patria Tunnel
Revenue Tunnel
Saint Paul
Schafer Ranch Deposit (Claim: Uranium Queen; Uranium Queen Mine?)
Schroeder Tunnel
Sunshine
Thomas Property
Triangle
Unknown Clay (MRDS - 10190970)
Unknown Gold (MRDS - 10167055)
Unknown Silver (MRDS - 10263598)
Unknown Silver (MRDS - 10287935)
Unknown Volcanic Materials Occurrence (MRDS - 10016011)
Unknown Volcanic Materials Occurrence (MRDS - 10016013)
Uranium Enterprise Inc.
Victory

Latitude: 37°17'56"N
Longitude: 107°54'25"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.298888888889,-107.90694444444
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 Ca Fe H Hg K Mg Na O Pb S Se Si Th Ti U V 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AmphiboleBrookiteClayClinozoisiteCopperEpidoteFluoriteMarcasiteMicaNone
Not in a structural groupQuartzRocksaltStilpnomelaneZircon

18 IMA Minerals at location:
Actinolite  (*)Anatase  (*)Anthophyllite  (*)Brookite  (*)Carnotite  (*)
Clausthalite  (*)Epidote  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Marcasite  (*)
Mercury  (*)Muscovite  (*)Quartz  (*)Roscoelite  (*)Stilpnomelane  (*)
Thorite  (*)Tyuyamunite  (*)Uraninite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite  (*)Amphibole   Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe2+0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)211909463419
Anatase  (*)Not in a structural groupTiO211909672162
Anthophyllite  (*)Amphibole   Mg2Mg5Si8O22(OH)21190946718
Brookite  (*)BrookiteTiO21190967700
Carnotite  (*)NoneK2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O11909541184
Clausthalite  (*)RocksaltPbSe1190954281
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)11909468173
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS119095424243
Gold  (*)CopperAu2190947,19095630554
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS211909675674
Mercury  (*)NoneHg1190956397
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2119096717380
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2119096761156
Roscoelite  (*)MicaKV3+2(Si3Al)O10(OH)22190954,190957253
Stilpnomelane  (*)Stilpnomelane Clay(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36·nH2O1190946456
Thorite  (*)ZirconTh(SiO4)11909671006
Tyuyamunite  (*)NoneCa(UO2)2(VO4)2·5-8H2O1190954628
Uraninite  (*)FluoriteUO211909672718


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