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.

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.

Corundum	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Zircon

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: Ca Fe H Mo O S Si Ti U Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Corundum Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Quartz Rutile Spinel Zircon

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Anatase ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Uranophane-α ()*	Zircon ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	293744	2162
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	293744	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	293744	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	4	293764,293775,293781,293802	5800
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	293775	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	293744	5614
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	293757	890
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	293744	5251

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
	ree-00758	2800	2500	Late Archean											172138	Fremont Butte, Sublette Co., Wyoming, USA	Fremont Butte	Orris and Grauch (2002)		USGSOFR02_189

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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