Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Gypsum Valley District, San Miguel Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24902
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24902.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gypsum Valley District, San Miguel Co., Colorado, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Mesuma Occurrence
Ponto No. 3 Claim
Sullivan Brothers Claims
Truck Group
Willhunt Property
Yellow Jacket Occurrence

Latitude: 38°2'2"N
Longitude: 108°42'19"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.033888888889,-108.70527777778

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.

Diaspore	Fluorite	Gypsum	Mica	None	Pascoite	Straczekite	Zircon

Carnotite ()*	Coffinite ()*	Corvusite ()*	Fervanite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Metamunirite ()*	Montroseite ()*	Pascoite ()*	Rauvite ()*	Roscoelite ()*
Steigerite ()*	Tyuyamunite ()*	Uraninite ()*

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 Fe H K Na O S Si U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Diaspore Fluorite Gypsum Mica None Pascoite Straczekite Zircon

13 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
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O			3	196671,196675,196676	1184
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O			1	196675	566
Corvusite ()*	Straczekite	(Na,Ca,K)_1-x(V⁵⁺,V⁴⁺,Fe²⁺)₈O₂₀·4H₂O			3	196672,196673,196675	79
Fervanite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₄V⁵⁺₄O₁₆·5H₂O			1	196673	10
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			1	196673	6890
Metamunirite ()*	None	NaV⁵⁺O₃	0	0	1	196672	14
Montroseite ()*	Diaspore	(V³⁺,Fe²⁺,V⁴⁺)O(OH)			1	196675	136
Pascoite ()*	Pascoite	Ca₃V⁵⁺₁₀O₂₈·17H₂O			1	196675	78
Rauvite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂V₁₀O₂₈·16H₂O			1	196675	32
Roscoelite ()*	Mica	KV³⁺₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			1	196671	253
Steigerite ()*	None	Al(VO₄)·3H₂O			2	196672,196673	10
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O			1	196675	628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂			2	196675,196676	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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