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:
Ruston, Tacoma, Pierce Co., Washington, USA

mindat Locality ID: 281229
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-281229.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ruston, Tacoma, Pierce Co., Washington, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
ASARCO Smelter Site Slag Locality

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.

Atacamite	Baryte	Brochantite	Corundum	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Pyroxene	Rocksalt

Anglesite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Boleite ()*	Botallackite ()*	Brochantite ()*
Cuprite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Hedenbergite ()*	Hematite ()*
Langite ()*	Phosgenite ()*	Posnjakite ()*	Pseudoboleite ()*

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: Ag C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Na O Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Atacamite Baryte Brochantite Corundum Gypsum None Not in a structural group Pyroxene Rocksalt

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	285412	2734
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	285412	544
Boleite ()*	None	KAg₉Pb₂₆Cu₂₄Cl₆₂(OH)₄₈	1	285412	65
Botallackite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	1	285412	49
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	285412	1633
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	285412	2970
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	285412	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	285412	1398
Hedenbergite ()*	Pyroxene	CaFe²⁺Si₂O₆	1	285412	741
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	285412	14640
Langite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O	1	285412	593
Phosgenite ()*	None	Pb₂(CO₃)Cl₂	1	285412	142
Posnjakite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·H₂O	1	285412	309
Pseudoboleite ()*	None	Pb₃₁Cu₂₄Cl₆₂(OH)₄₈	1	285412	33

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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