Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Greaterville Placer Deposits, Greaterville, Greaterville District, Santa Rita Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 35769
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-35769.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Greaterville Placer Deposits, Greaterville, Greaterville District, Santa Rita Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Boston Gulch
Chispa Gulch
Empire Ranch Area
Harshaw Gulch
Hughes Gulch
Kentucky Gulch
Los Pozos Gulch
Louisiana Gulch
Nigger Gulch
Ophir Gulch
Sonoita Area
Spring Water Canyon

Latitude: 31°45'20"N
Longitude: 110°42'45"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.755555555556,-110.7125

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.

Acanthite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Malachite
Mica	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite

Acanthite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
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 Au Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C O Pb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite Malachite
Mica Molybdenite None Pyrite Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	144260	2793
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	144260,144265	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	144258	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	144260,144265	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	0		4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	144258,144260,144265	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	144258	4165
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	144254,144258,144260,144265	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	19	144247,144248,144250,144251,144252,144253,144254,144255,144256,144257,144258,144260,144261,144262,144263,144264,144265,144266,144269	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	144255	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	144258	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	144258	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	144258	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	144255,144258,144265	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	144258,144260,144265	21482
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	144252	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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