Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Delamar Mill Tailings Pile, Delamar District, Lincoln Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 309541
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-309541.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Delamar Mill Tailings Pile, Delamar District, Lincoln Co., Nevada, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 37°27'27"N
Longitude: 114°46'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.4575,-114.77472222222

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.

Corundum	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rutile

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 Fe O S Se Si Te Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Fe O S Se Si Te Ti

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Corundum None Not in a structural group Quartz Rutile

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Cervelleite ()*	Hessite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Naumannite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Tellurium ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Cervelleite ()*	None	Ag₄TeS	42
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	804
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	5433
Naumannite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ag₂Se	192
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	5614
Tellurium ()*	None	Te	190

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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