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:
F2 Fumerole Field, Mullet Island, Salton Sea, Imperial Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 301805
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-301805.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "F2 Fumerole Field, Mullet Island, Salton Sea, Imperial Co., California, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Sulfur Hill

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Alum	Arcanite	Blödite	Calcite	Gypsum	None	Picromerite	Rocksalt	Sulphur	Tamarugite

Blödite ()*	Boussingaultite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Koktaite ()*
Konyaite ()*	Lecontite ()*	Mascagnite ()*	Mirabilite ()*	Nitratine ()*
Salammoniac ()*	Sulphur ()*	Sylvite ()*	Tamarugite ()*	Thénardite ()*
Tschermigite ()*

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 Ca Cl H K Mg N Na O S

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alum Arcanite Blödite Calcite Gypsum None Picromerite Rocksalt Sulphur Tamarugite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Blödite ()*	Blödite	Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O	1	156879	130
Boussingaultite ()*	Picromerite	(NH₄)₂Mg(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	0		30
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	0		6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	0		1398
Koktaite ()*	None	(NH₄)₂Ca(SO₄)₂·H₂O	0		12
Konyaite ()*	Picromerite	Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·5H₂O	1	156879	20
Lecontite ()*	None	(NH₄)Na(SO₄)·2H₂O	0		6
Mascagnite ()*	Arcanite	(NH₄)₂(SO₄)	0		61
Mirabilite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)·10H₂O	0		223
Nitratine ()*	Calcite	Na(NO₃)	1	156879	91
Salammoniac ()*	None	(NH₄)Cl	0		105
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	0		2045
Sylvite ()*	Rocksalt	KCl	0		275
Tamarugite ()*	Tamarugite	NaAl(SO₄)₂·6H₂O	0		87
Thénardite ()*	None	Na₂(SO₄)	0		299
Tschermigite ()*	Alum	(NH₄)Al(SO₄)₂·12H₂O	0		81

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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