Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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.

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	Beryl	Copper	Corundum	Cristobalite	Feldspar	Fluorite	Fritzscheite	Gypsum	None
Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rutile	Sapphirine	Spinel	Tridymite	Zircon

Ammoniojarosite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Bayleyite ()*	Beryl ()*	Carnotite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Coffinite ()*	Cristobalite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dorrite ()*
Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Magnesioferrite ()*
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Tridymite ()*	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 Au Be C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mn N O S Si U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Beryl Copper Corundum Cristobalite Feldspar Fluorite Fritzscheite Gypsum None
Not in a structural group Quartz Rutile Sapphirine Spinel Tridymite Zircon

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ammoniojarosite ()*	Alunite	(NH₄)Fe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	292479	30
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1	292478	1036
Bayleyite ()*	None	Mg₂(UO₂)(CO₃)₃·18H₂O	1	292615	38
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1	292476	4286
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	3	292629,292630,292640	1184
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	292481	5707
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O	2	292645,292650	566
Cristobalite ()*	Cristobalite	SiO₂	1	292478	453
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	292481	2970
Dorrite ()*	Sapphirine	Ca₄[Mg₃Fe³⁺₉]O₄[Si₃Al₈Fe³⁺O₃₆]	1	292478	10
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	292473,292589	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	292479,292592	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	292478	14640
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	2	292650,292673	2228
Magnesioferrite ()*	Spinel	MgFe³⁺₂O₄	1	292478	98
Metatyuyamunite ()*	Fritzscheite	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	1	292593	129
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	292640	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	292473,292478,292640	61156
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂	1	292478	458
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O	1	292650	628
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	292650	2718

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
	USGS-Rb-Sr-00126	2496.2	2496.2	2496.2	Rb-Sr	age of metamorphic crystallization		biotite							173280	Powder River Pass Occurrence, Johnson Co., Wyoming, USA		USGS-Rb-Sr		USGS-Rb-Sr

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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