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Locality Name:
Bully Hill District (Winthrop District), East Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 260
Youngest recorded age at locality: 260

mindat Locality ID: 209179
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209179.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bully Hill District (Winthrop District), East Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Bully Hill

Latitude: 40°48'1"N
Longitude: 122°11'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.800277777778,-122.18722222222

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.

Alunite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Epidote
Epsomite	Gypsum	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stannite
Tetrahedrite

Anhydrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Epidote ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Goslarite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*
Jarosite ()*	Luzonite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Fe H K O S Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite Epidote
Epsomite Gypsum Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite Stannite
Tetrahedrite

23 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
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	260	260	2	176537,176539	1588
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	260	260	2	176535,176537	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	260	260	2	176537,176539	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	260	260	3	176536,176537,176539	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	260	260	0		27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	260	260	3	176536,176537,176539	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	260	260	5	176536,176537,176539,176546,176549	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	260	260	2	176536,176537	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	260	260	1	176537	4165
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	260	260	0		8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	260	260	3	176536,176537,176539	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	260	260	2	176537,176543	30554
Goslarite ()*	Epsomite	Zn(SO₄)·7H₂O	260	260	0		188
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	260	260	2	176537,176539	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	260	260	0		14640
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	260	260	1	176537	2228
Luzonite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃AsS₄			1	176539	198
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	260	260	1	176537	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	260	260	0		17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	260	260	5	176536,176537,176539,176546,176549	39462
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	260	260	1	176537	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	260	260	3	176536,176537,176539	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	260	260	1	176537	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
	vms-01026	260	260	Late Permian										S	92495	Bully Hill Mine (Shasta Zinc And Copper Mine; Bully Hill-Rising Star Mine; Copper City Mine; Rising Star Mine; Delamar Mine; Shasta Zinc And Copper Mine), Bully Hill, Bully Hill, Bully Hill District (Winthrop District), East Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA	Bully Hill-Rising Star	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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