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:
American Boy Mine (Lost Horse; Rhode Island; Down #1 & #2; Albert Gross; Fraction; New York; American), Piper Gulch, Mansfield Gulch (Mansfield Canyon), Temporal Gulch, Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 68.4
Youngest recorded age at locality: 65.4

mindat Locality ID: 34322
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-34322.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "American Boy Mine (Lost Horse; Rhode Island; Down #1 & #2; Albert Gross; Fraction; New York; American), Piper Gulch, Mansfield Gulch (Mansfield Canyon), Temporal Gulch, Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 31°37'27"N
Longitude: 110°49'18"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.624166666667,-110.82166666667

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Malachite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite

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: Ba C Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba C Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Malachite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	68.4	65.4	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	68.4	65.4	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	68.4	65.4	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	68.4	65.4	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	68.4	65.4	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	68.4	65.4	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	68.4	65.4	24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	68.4	65.4	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	68.4	65.4	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	68.4	65.4	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	68.4	65.4	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	68.4	65.4	5317

1 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_00000357	68.4	65.4	66.9±1.5	K-Ar	Age of mineralization of quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration assemblage in Triassic volcanic rock			UAKA-73-158		Yes				34320	Wrightson District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA	Mount Wrightston Quad.	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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