Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Maynard District, Hualapai (Hualpai) Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1360
Youngest recorded age at locality: 589

mindat Locality ID: 31221
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-31221.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Maynard District, Hualapai (Hualpai) Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA": 21
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
American Flag Mine (Flag Mine)
American Mine
Antelope Mine
Blue Bell Group (Tungsten Queen Mine; Nello Mine; Nello Group; Tripod Mine; Tripod Claim)
Dean Peak
Diamond Joe Peak
Gold Metal Mine
Great Eastern Mine
Hualapai Spring
Kaaba Mine (Kabba Mine)
Lookout Placers
Mariposa Mine
Unnamed Au-Ag-U Occurrence
Unnamed Mo-Cu Prospects (1)
Unnamed Mo-Cu Prospects (2)
Unnamed Mo-Cu Prospects (3)

Latitude: 35°0'45"N
Longitude: 113°48'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.0125,-113.80388888889

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Copper	Fluorite	Kaolinite	Marcasite
Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bornite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chlorargyrite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hübnerite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Mercury ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stibnite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Uraninite ()*	Vanadinite ()*	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 Bi C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Hg K Mn Mo O Pb S Sb Si U V W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al C Cl Hg O Pb Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Copper Fluorite Kaolinite Marcasite
Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

25 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
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1360	1280	1	142698	9052
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1360	1280	1	142696	1935
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	709	589	1	142706	5516
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	709	589	0		4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1360	589	5	142698,142700,142706,142711,142712	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	709	589	0		1382
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1360	1280	2	142698,142707	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1360	589	2	142702,142706	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1360	1280	4	142693,142698,142702,142708	30554
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	1360	1280	1	142696	469
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1360	1280	1	142698	5591
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	709	589	1	142706	5674
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	709	589	0		397
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1360	589	10	142693,142694,142696,142700,142702,142704,142706,142711,142712,142713	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1360	1280	6	142693,142696,142698,142702,142712,142713	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1360	589	9	142693,142696,142698,142700,142704,142706,142711,142712,142713	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1360	589	3	142693,142706,142712	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1360	1280	1	142696	4894
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	709	589	0		1516
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1360	1280	1	142693	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1360	1280	1	142693	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	709	589	1	142706	5317
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1360	1280	1	142698	2718
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	1360	1280	1	142707	605
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1360	1280	1	142707	1655

2 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
	Giersdorf_00000323	1360	1280	1320±40	K-Ar				UAKA-21-57		Yes				3343	Hualapai (Hualpai) Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA	Hualapai Mountains	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201
	Giersdorf_00000337	709	589	649±60	K-Ar	Reset age of the Enterprise Granite			UAKA-57-22						62627	Enterprise Mine (Copper Jewell Mine; Jewell Tunnel), Hualapai Spring, Maynard District, Hualapai (Hualpai) Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA	Enterprise Mine	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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