Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
U. S. Potash Co. Mine (U.S. Potash Mine; U.S. Borax & Chemical Co. Mine; U.S. Potash And Chemical Mine; Continental American Mine; Teledyne Mine; Mississippi Potash West Mine; Intrepid Potash West Mine), Carlsbad Potash District, Eddy Co., New Mexico, USA

mindat Locality ID: 51296
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-51296.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "U. S. Potash Co. Mine (U.S. Potash Mine; U.S. Borax & Chemical Co. Mine; U.S. Potash And Chemical Mine; Continental American Mine; Teledyne Mine; Mississippi Potash West Mine; Intrepid Potash West Mine), Carlsbad Potash District, Eddy Co., New Mexico, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 32°28'55"N
Longitude: 103°53'25"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.481944444444,-103.89027777778

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.

Carnallite	Langbeinite	None	Rocksalt

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 Cl H K Mg Na O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Cl H K Mg Na O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Carnallite Langbeinite None Rocksalt

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Carnallite ()*	Halite ()*	Langbeinite ()*	Polyhalite ()*	Sylvite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Carnallite ()*	Carnallite	KMgCl₃·6H₂O	132
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1398
Langbeinite ()*	Langbeinite	K₂Mg₂(SO₄)₃	43
Polyhalite ()*	None	K₂Ca₂Mg(SO₄)₄·2H₂O	102
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	275

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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