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Locality Name:
Richmond Basin District, Apache Peaks, Gila Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 44389
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-44389.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Richmond Basin District, Apache Peaks, Gila Co., Arizona, USA": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Abbie And Ross Mine (Victoria And Ross Mine)
Belle Boyd Mine
Cora Mine
Dundee Mine
East Richmond Mine
Helene Vein
Oasis Group (Delshay Group)
Raven Group (Apache Group; Windy Hill; Silver Lake; Silver Plume; Old Whelan Property)
Richmond Basin
Rifleman Mine
Silver Nugget Mine
South Plata Mine

Latitude: 33°31'15"N
Longitude: 110°45'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.520833333333,-110.76527777778
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 As Au Ba Br Cl Cu Fe O S Sb 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteBaryteChalcopyriteCopperNoneRocksaltTetrahedrite

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Baryte  (*)Bromargyrite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chlorargyrite  (*)
Gold  (*)Silver  (*)Stephanite  (*)Stromeyerite  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S2138046,1380472793
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)4138047,138048,138052,13805311547
Bromargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgBr1138048227
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2113804827198
Chlorargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgCl3138047,138048,1380491382
Gold  (*)CopperAu113805330554
Silver  (*)CopperAg2138047,1380485186
Stephanite  (*)NoneAg5SbS41138048586
Stromeyerite  (*)NoneCuAgS1138048332
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S1311380441803


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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