Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
South Table Mountain, Golden, Golden District, Jefferson Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 6059
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-6059.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "South Table Mountain, Golden, Golden District, Jefferson Co., Colorado, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 39°45'28"N
Longitude: 105°11'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.757777777778,-105.1975

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.

Allophane	Amorphous	Analcime	Apophyllite	Aragonite	Calcite	Chabazite	Clay	Gismondine	Harmotome
Heulandite	Lévyne	Mica	Mordenite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyroxene	Smectite-vermiculite	Stilbite
Thomsonite

Analcime ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chabazite-Ca ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Cowlesite ()*	Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Garronite-Ca ()*	Gonnardite ()*
Heulandite-Ca ()*	Laumontite ()*	Lévyne-Ca ()*	Mesolite ()*	Mordenite ()*
Natrolite ()*	Nontronite ()*	Offretite ()*	Opal ()*	Phillipsite-Ca ()*
Phlogopite ()*	Stilbite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*

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 Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amorphous Analcime Apophyllite Aragonite Calcite Chabazite Clay Gismondine Harmotome
Heulandite Lévyne Mica Mordenite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Pyroxene Smectite-vermiculite Stilbite
Thomsonite

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1627
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	2060
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Chabazite-Ca ()*	Chabazite	Ca₂[Al₄Si₈O₂₄]·13H₂O	310
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	3531
Cowlesite ()*	None	Ca(Al₂Si₃)O₁₀·5-6H₂O	84
Fluorapophyllite-(K) ()*	Apophyllite	KCa₄Si₈O₂₀F·8H₂O	303
Garronite-Ca ()*	Gismondine	Ca₃(Al₆Si₁₀O₃₂)·14H₂O	66
Gonnardite ()*	Natrolite	(Na,Ca)₂(Si,Al)₅O₁₀·3H₂O	167
Heulandite-Ca ()*	Heulandite	(Ca,Na,K)₅(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·26H₂O	246
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1271
Lévyne-Ca ()*	Lévyne	Ca₃(Si₁₂Al₆)O₃₆·18H₂O	42
Mesolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂Ca₂(Si₉Al₆)O₃₀·8H₂O	425
Mordenite ()*	Mordenite	(Na₂,Ca,K₂)₄(Al₈Si₄₀)O₉₆·28H₂O	405
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	1236
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	471
Offretite ()*	Not in a structural group	KCaMg(Si₁₃Al₅)O₃₆·15H₂O	146
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2994
Phillipsite-Ca ()*	Harmotome	Ca₃(Si₁₀Al₆)O₃₂·12H₂O	75
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	2273
Stilbite-Ca ()*	Stilbite	NaCa₄(Si₂₇Al₉)O₇₂·28H₂O	268
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	452

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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