Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Lake George, Park Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 8882
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-8882.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lake George, Park Co., Colorado, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Chance Claim
Clarence Coil Claim
Mary Lea-Little Bear Mine (Mary Lee Mine; Little Bear No. 2 Mine)
Quartz Hill
R. A. Kosnar #2 Prospect
R. A. Kosnar #4 Prospect
R. A. Kosnar's Goethite Hill Claim
Rosa Claim
St. Joe Tunnel
Steven's Ranch

Latitude: 39°1'59"N
Longitude: 105°23'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.033055555556,-105.38416666667

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	Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore	Feldspar	Fluorite
Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Topaz
Zircon

Albite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bertrandite ()*	Beryl ()*	Calcite ()*
Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cordierite ()*	Covellite ()*	Euclase ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*	Microcline ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stibiocolumbite ()*	Topaz ()*	Uraninite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*
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: Al Ba Be C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na Nb O P Pb S Sb Si Sn U Y Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca O Si Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Corundum Covellite Diaspore Feldspar Fluorite
Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Topaz
Zircon

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	2	194763,194774	8803
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	194764	11547
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	1	194764	606
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1	194764	4286
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0		27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	194764	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	194764	27198
Cordierite ()*	Beryl	Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈	1	194770	1008
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	194764	4165
Euclase ()*	None	BeAlSiO₄(OH)	1	194764	120
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	3	194764,194766,194767	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	194764	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	10	194762,194763,194767,194768,194769,194772,194774,194775,194776,194777	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	194768,194774	14640
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	6	194762,194763,194765,194767,194772,194774	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	194764	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	194764	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	194764	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	10	194762,194763,194764,194765,194768,194769,194770,194772,194774,194776	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	2	194764,194774	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	194764	21482
Stibiocolumbite ()*	None	SbNbO₄	1	194763	13
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	194764	1476
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	194764	2718
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	194765	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	0		5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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