Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Grants District, Cibola Co., New Mexico, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1.8
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0.001

mindat Locality ID: 24327
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24327.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Grants District, Cibola Co., New Mexico, USA": 19
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Black Hawk Mine
Bunney Mine
Christmas Day Mine
F-33 Mine
Grants
San Fidel

Latitude: 35°11'0"N
Longitude: 107°43'31"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.183333333333,-107.72527777778

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.

Amorphous	Baryte	Calcite	Corundum	Fluorite	Garnet	Hewettite	Marcasite	None	Pyrite
Ramsdellite	Rocksalt	Titanite	Topaz	Zircon

Barnesite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bayleyite ()*	Calcite ()*	Carnotite ()*
Coffinite ()*	Doloresite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Grantsite ()*
Häggite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hewettite ()*	Jordisite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Metahewettite ()*	Paramontroseite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Schröckingerite ()*	Spessartine ()*
Titanite ()*	Topaz ()*	Tyuyamunite ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*

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 C Ca F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na O Pb S Si Ti U V

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Baryte Calcite Corundum Fluorite Garnet Hewettite Marcasite None Pyrite
Ramsdellite Rocksalt Titanite Topaz Zircon

25 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Barnesite ()*	Hewettite	Na₂V⁵⁺₆O₁₆·3H₂O			1	244375	15
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	244375	11547
Bayleyite ()*	None	Mg₂(UO₂)(CO₃)₃·18H₂O	1.8	0.001	1	244381	38
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1.8	0.001	1	244386	27770
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O			1	244375	1184
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O			1	244375	566
Doloresite ()*	None	V⁴⁺₃O₄(OH)₄			1	244375	23
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1.8	0.001	2	244375,244386	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	244375	24243
Grantsite ()*	Hewettite	(Na,Ca)_2+x(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺)₆O₁₆·4H₂O			1	244375	7
Häggite ()*	None	V³⁺V⁴⁺O₂(OH)₃			1	244375	17
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			1	244375	14640
Hewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·9H₂O			1	244375	58
Jordisite ()*	Amorphous	MoS₂	1.8	0.001	1	244381	102
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			1	244375	5674
Metahewettite ()*	Hewettite	CaV⁵⁺₆O₁₆·3H₂O			1	244375	56
Paramontroseite ()*	Ramsdellite	VO₂			1	244375	39
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			1	244375	39462
Schröckingerite ()*	None	NaCa₃(UO₂)(SO₄)(CO₃)₃F·10H₂O			1	244390	128
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1.8	0.001	1	244380	1214
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1.8	0.001	0		4899
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1.8	0.001	1	244380	1476
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O			1	244375	628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂			1	244375	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O			1	244375	890

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	NAVDAT-2881	1.8	0.001	0.9+0.9/-0.899					2881						294821	Grants, Grants District, Cibola Co., New Mexico, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

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