Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Bitter Creek Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan District, Montrose Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 5982
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-5982.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bitter Creek Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan District, Montrose Co., Colorado, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 38°15'53"N
Longitude: 108°41'57"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.264722222222,-108.69916666667

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.

Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Diaspore	Fluorite	Fritzscheite	Gypsum	Hewettite	Marcasite	None	Pascoite
Pyrite	Ramsdellite	Straczekite

Baryte ()*	Carnotite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Corvusite ()*	Ferroselite ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hewettite ()*	Melanovanadite ()*	Metatyuyamunite ()*	Montroseite ()*
Paramontroseite ()*	Pascoite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Rauvite ()*	Tyuyamunite ()*
Uraninite ()*

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: Ba Ca Cu Fe H K Na O S Se U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba Ca Cu Fe H K Na O S Se U V

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Chalcopyrite Diaspore Fluorite Fritzscheite Gypsum Hewettite Marcasite None Pascoite
Pyrite Ramsdellite Straczekite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11547
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	1184
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Corvusite ()*	Straczekite	(Na,Ca,K)_1-x(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺,Fe²⁺)₈O₂₀·4H₂O	79
Ferroselite ()*	Marcasite	FeSe₂	51
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Hewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·9H₂O	58
Melanovanadite ()*	None	Ca(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺)₄O₁₀·5H₂O	20
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Fritzscheite	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	129
Montroseite ()*	Diaspore	(V³⁺,Fe²⁺,V⁴⁺)O(OH)	136
Paramontroseite ()*	Ramsdellite	VO₂	39
Pascoite ()*	Pascoite	Ca₃V⁵⁺₁₀O₂₈·17H₂O	78
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Rauvite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂V₁₀O₂₈·16H₂O	32
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O	628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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