Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Copperopolis, Castle Creek District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 18928
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-18928.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Copperopolis, Castle Creek District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Big Lead Mine
Buckhorn Mine (Buckhorn Property; Willis Mine)
Buzzard's Roost
Champie Mine (Lehman Mine; Lehman Copper Mine; Lone Star Mine; UFO Claims; Cersa Moje 1-7 Claims; Rhoades-Iola Claims)
Copper King Mine
Copperopolis Mine (Melinda Jane Drift; Mammoth; Amity Group; Patented Claims 1200 And 1246)
Dugan Mine
Golden Aster Mine (Lehman Mine; Lehman Property; Rattlesnake Vein)
Lehman Gold Quartz Mine (Lehman's Mine)
McKinzie Mine
Sheep Mountain Cu Occurrence
Unnamed Cu Prospect
Whipsaw Gulch (Whipsaw Creek)

Latitude: 34°3'50"N
Longitude: 112°28'35"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.063888888889,-112.47638888889

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	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Bismutite	Calcite	Copper	Corundum	Descloizite
Diaspore	Fluorite	Fornacite	Iranite	Malachite	Minium	None	Phenakite	Plancheite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Stibnite	Tourmaline

Anglesite ()*	Baryte ()*	Beyerite ()*	Bismite ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*
Fluorite ()*	Fornacite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Hemihedrite ()*	Leadhillite ()*	Malachite ()*	Massicot ()*
Mimetite ()*	Minium ()*	Mottramite ()*	Namibite ()*	Opal ()*
Plancheite ()*	Quartz ()*	Schorl ()*	Willemite ()*

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 As Au B Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cr Cu F Fe H Na O Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Baryte Bismutite Calcite Copper Corundum Descloizite
Diaspore Fluorite Fornacite Iranite Malachite Minium None Phenakite Plancheite Quartz
Rocksalt Stibnite Tourmaline

29 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	3	147659,147663,147665	2734
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	147663,147665	11547
Beyerite ()*	Bismutite	CaBi₂O₂(CO₃)₂	1	147671	96
Bismite ()*	None	Bi₂O₃	1	147662	214
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	147662	1935
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	147662,147671	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	147663	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	147662,147665	5707
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	5	147662,147663,147665,147671,147674	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	147662	3846
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	147662	9617
Fornacite ()*	Fornacite	CuPb₂(CrO₄)(AsO₄)(OH)	1	147663	85
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	147659,147663,147665	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	147671	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	147662,147667,147671,147674	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	6	147660,147662,147663,147665,147671,147674	14640
Hemihedrite ()*	Iranite	ZnPb₁₀(CrO₄)₆(SiO₄)₂(OH)₂	1	147663	14
Leadhillite ()*	None	Pb₄(SO₄)(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	147663	265
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	147663,147671	12537
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	1	147663	202
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1	147663	1107
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄	1	147663	247
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	1	147671	362
Namibite ()*	None	Cu(BiO)₂(VO₄)(OH)	1	147671	24
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	147671	2994
Plancheite ()*	Plancheite	Cu₈(Si₄O₁₁)₂(OH)₄·H₂O	3	147663,147671,147674	74
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	147662,147663,147671	61156
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	147663	2705
Willemite ()*	Phenakite	Zn₂SiO₄	2	147663,147671	303

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R120112	Copperopolis, Castle Creek District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA	https://rruff.info/R120112
R100182	Copperopolis, Castle Creek District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA	https://rruff.info/R100182

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