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:
Little Green Monster Variscite Mine, Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 8260
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-8260.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Little Green Monster Variscite Mine, Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

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.

Alunite	Apatite	Calcioferrite	Calcite	Laueite	None	Overite	Phosphosiderite	Pyrochlore	Quartz
Wardite

Alunite ()*	Calcite ()*	Crandallite ()*	Englishite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*
Gordonite ()*	Goyazite ()*	Hydroxycalcioroméite ()*	Hydroxylapatite ()*	Kolbeckite ()*
Millisite ()*	Montgomeryite ()*	Overite ()*	Quartz ()*	Variscite ()*
Wardite ()*

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 F H K Mg Na O P S Sb Sc Si Sr Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca F H K Mg Na O P S Sb Sc Si Sr Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Calcioferrite Calcite Laueite None Overite Phosphosiderite Pyrochlore Quartz
Wardite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	966
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	310
Englishite ()*	None	K₃Na₂Ca₁₀Al₁₅(OH)₇(PO₄)₂₁·26H₂O	6
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2740
Gordonite ()*	Laueite	MgAl₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂·8H₂O	18
Goyazite ()*	Alunite	SrAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	173
Hydroxycalcioroméite ()*	Pyrochlore	(Ca,Sb³⁺)₂(Sb⁵⁺,Ti)₂O₆(OH)	11
Hydroxylapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃OH	367
Kolbeckite ()*	Phosphosiderite	Sc(PO₄)·2H₂O	26
Millisite ()*	Wardite	NaCaAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₉·3H₂O	12
Montgomeryite ()*	Calcioferrite	Ca₄MgAl₄(PO₄)₆(OH)₄·12H₂O	44
Overite ()*	Overite	CaMgAl(PO₄)₂(OH)·4H₂O	5
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	301
Wardite ()*	Wardite	NaAl₃(PO₄)₂(OH)₄·2H₂O	58

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
FKM-221	Little Green Monster Variscite Mine, Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Oquirrh Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA	https://www.rockptx.com/fkm-201-to-fkm-225/#FKM-221

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