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:
Wolf Creek Pass, San Juan Mts, Mineral Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 53024
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-53024.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wolf Creek Pass, San Juan Mts, Mineral Co., Colorado, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
South Overlook Locality
Treasure Falls Locality
Upper East Fork Locality

Latitude: 37°26'4"N
Longitude: 106°51'46"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.434444444444,-106.86277777778

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.

Analcime	Calcite	Chlorite	Clay	Heulandite	Mica	Mordenite	Natrolite	None	Pyrite
Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite

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 Mg Na O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Analcime Calcite Chlorite Clay Heulandite Mica Mordenite Natrolite None Pyrite
Quartz Smectite-vermiculite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Analcime ()*	Calcite ()*	Celadonite ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Heulandite-Na ()*
Mordenite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Saponite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1	192730	1627
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	192730	27770
Celadonite ()*	Mica Clay	KMgFe³⁺Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	192730	309
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	192730	1756
Heulandite-Na ()*	Heulandite	(Na,Ca,K)₆(Si,Al)₃₆O₇₂·22H₂O	1	192730	18
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	3	192729,192730,192731	405
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1	192730	1236
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	192730	471
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	192730	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	192729,192730	61156
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	192730	301

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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