Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Artillery Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 58.8
Youngest recorded age at locality: 9.17

mindat Locality ID: 34445
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-34445.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Artillery Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA": 54
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 44

Number of Child Localities: 28
Child Localities:
Alamo Area
Alamo Crossing
Alamo Queen Mine (Manganosite Mine)
American Mine (American Prospect)
Artillery Peak
Artillery Peak - South Of
Artillery Peak Area
Black Jack Mine (Black Jack Vein; Black Jack Group; Love Group)
Black Mary Prospect
Black Mollie Mine
Black Moly Mine
Blossom Mine (Blossom Group; River View Mine; Corum Mine)
Cleopatra District
Graham Claims
Graham Prospect
John Carr Claims
Lone Star Mine
Maggie Canyon
McComas Claims
Needle Eye Mine (Leeye Mine)
Oversight Mine
Plancha Mountain Prospect (Plancha Group; Plancha Deposit)
Polianite Group Mine (Tate Manganese Mine)
Rawhide Wash
Rudy Mine (Rudy Group; Barbee Mine; Nigger Boy Mine; Nigger Boy Claims)
Sec. 12; T.11N.; R.13W.
Sec. 23; T.11N.; R.13W.
Shanahan Claims

Latitude: 34°19'24"N
Longitude: 113°37'12"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.323333333333,-113.62

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.

Allophane	Amorphous	Analcime	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Braunite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper
Coronadite	Fluorite	Gypsum	Hyalotekite	Malachite	Minium	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Ramsdellite
Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Wickenburgite

Alamosite ()*	Analcime ()*	Anglesite ()*	Baryte ()*	Braunite ()*
Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Coronadite ()*	Creaseyite ()*	Cryptomelane ()*	Dioptase ()*
Embreyite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hollandite ()*	Hyalotekite ()*	Lithiophorite ()*	Luddenite ()*	Malachite ()*
Manganite ()*	Melanotekite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Nitratine ()*	Opal ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Ramsdellite ()*	Shattuckite ()*	Silver ()*
Trippkeite ()*	Wherryite ()*	Wickenburgite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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 Al As Au B Ba Be C Ca Cl Cr Cu F Fe H K Li Mn Mo N Na O P Pb S Si Sr Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca H O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amorphous Analcime Apatite Aragonite Baryte Braunite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper
Coronadite Fluorite Gypsum Hyalotekite Malachite Minium None Not in a structural group Quartz Ramsdellite
Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Wickenburgite

39 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
Alamosite ()*	Not in a structural group	PbSiO₃	58.8	51	4	141575,141601,141603,141604	17
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O			1	141593	1627
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	58.8	51	1	141601	2734
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	58.8	51	6	141557,141563,141579,141594,141599,141605	11547
Braunite ()*	Braunite	Mn²⁺Mn³⁺₆O₈(SiO₄)			1	141563	483
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	58.8	51	9	141566,141567,141571,141573,141591,141594,141597,141605,141606	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)			1	141589	1252
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	58.8	51	2	141575,141604	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			2	141575,141587	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			1	141575	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	58.8	51	3	141575,141587,141601	3531
Coronadite ()*	Coronadite	Pb(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	13.96	13.96	2	141574,141579	227
Creaseyite ()*	None	Cu₂Pb₂Fe³⁺₂Si₅O₁₇·6H₂O	58.8	51	1	141601	27
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	13.96	13.96	4	141574,141579,141594,141598	599
Dioptase ()*	None	CuSiO₃·H₂O	58.8	51	1	141601	164
Embreyite ()*	None	Pb₅(CrO₄)₂(PO₄)₂·H₂O	58.8	51	1	141601	5
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	58.8	51	5	141557,141563,141575,141594,141604	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	141575	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			4	141566,141575,141577,141587	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	58.8	9.17	0		6890
Hollandite ()*	Coronadite	Ba(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	13.96	13.96	3	141574,141579,141594	243
Hyalotekite ()*	Hyalotekite	(Ba,Pb,K)₄(Ca,Y)₂(B,Be)₂(Si,B)₂Si₈O₂₈F			1	141575	4
Lithiophorite ()*	None	(Al,Li)(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)O₂(OH)₂	13.96	13.96	3	141574,141579,141598	210
Luddenite ()*	None	Cu₂Pb₂Si₅O₁₄·14H₂O	58.8	51	3	141575,141603,141604	4
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			3	141557,141575,141587	12537
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	58.8	51	18	141559,141560,141563,141565,141566,141567,141569,141571,141572,141580,141581,141591,141594,141596,141599,141605,141606,141607	770
Melanotekite ()*	None	Pb₂Fe³⁺₂O₂(Si₂O₇)			1	141575	22
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	58.8	51	2	141575,141604	1107
Nitratine ()*	Calcite	Na(NO₃)			1	141576	91
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O			1	141594	2994
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	58.8	13.96	16	141559,141563,141566,141569,141570,141574,141579,141580,141581,141591,141597,141598,141599,141605,141606,141607	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	58.8	51	5	141575,141579,141601,141603,141605	61156
Ramsdellite ()*	Ramsdellite	MnO₂	13.96	13.96	3	141574,141579,141598	88
Shattuckite ()*	None	Cu₅(SiO₃)₄(OH)₂	58.8	51	3	141575,141601,141603	71
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			1	141587	5186
Trippkeite ()*	Minium	Cu²⁺As³⁺₂O₄	58.8	51	1	141601	7
Wherryite ()*	None	Pb₇Cu₂(SO₄)₄(SiO₄)₂(OH)₂	58.8	51	2	141578,141601	9
Wickenburgite ()*	Wickenburgite	Pb₃CaAl₂Si₁₀O₂₇·4H₂O	58.8	51	3	141575,141603,141604	14
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	58.8	51	5	141557,141575,141577,141601,141604	1655

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Jen_0000036a	upper Artillery Formation

7 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	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
Giersdorf_00000441	16.68	15.88	16.28±0.4	K-Ar				UAKA-74-04			34445	Artillery Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA	Artillery Mountains	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201
Giersdorf_00000465	9.93	9.17	9.55±0.38	K-Ar				UAKA-75-62			34445	Artillery Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA	Artillery Mountains	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201
Jen_0000036	26.29	26.27	26.28±0.01	Ar-Ar	age of deposition	high	sanidine		Sanidine	Baryte, Calcite, Chrysocolla, Hematite	34445	Artillery Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA	Artillery Formation	Evenson et al. (2014)	10.2475/10.2014.01	AJS314_1373	oldest date obtained from strata in the Buckskin-Rawhide detachment system
Jen_0000036a	16.2	16.2	16.2	K-Ar	age of deposition					Baryte, Calcite, Chrysocolla, Hematite	34445	Artillery Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA	Artillery Formation	Evenson et al. (2014)	10.2475/10.2014.01	AJS314_1373	serves as minimum age for Artillery Formation minimum age is not well understood. separate minimum ages found in 2 different bedding layers
Jen_0000039c	13.96	13.96	13.96	U-Th	age of deposition			NC4		Coronadite, Hollandite	39695	Priceless Mine (Priceless Vein; Price Vein; John Carr Claims; Price Mine; Price Group; Mohave Mining & Milling Mine), Artillery Peak, Artillery Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA	Priceless Mine	Evenson et al. (2014)	10.2475/10.2014.01	AJS314_1373	Sandtrap Cg. deposition, cessation of detachment activity
Giersdorf_00000365	58.8	56.4	57.6±1.2	K-Ar				UAKA-75-61			204138	Rawhide Wash, Artillery Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA	Rawhide Mountain	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201
Giersdorf_00000366	53.4	51	52.2±1.2	K-Ar				UAKA-75-61			204138	Rawhide Wash, Artillery Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA	Rawhide Mountain	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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