Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Elephant Head Group Of Claims (Tremaine-Daniels Group), Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 34285
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-34285.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Elephant Head Group Of Claims (Tremaine-Daniels Group), Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Eureka Claim
Quantrell Claim

Latitude: 31°42'36"N
Longitude: 110°55'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.71,-110.92388888889

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.

Chalcopyrite	Clay	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

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: Al C Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Clay Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Rocksalt Sphalerite

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	0		24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	0		12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	0		5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	147051	17380
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	0		21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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