Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Wolftone Mine, Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 41.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 37.9

mindat Locality ID: 5903
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-5903.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wolftone Mine, Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 39°14'50"N
Longitude: 106°16'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.247222222222,-106.27333333333

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	Coronadite	Corundum	Descloizite	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite

Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Birnessite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Cryptomelane ()*	Descloizite ()*	Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Smithsonite ()*	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: Ba C Ca Fe H K Mn Na O Pb S Si V W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba C Ca Fe H K Mn Na O Pb S Si V W Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Coronadite Corundum Descloizite Gypsum None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	41.3	37.9	11547
Birnessite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K)_0.6(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)₂O₄·1.5H₂O	41.3	37.9	178
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	4979
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	41.3	37.9	599
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	41.3	37.9	378
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	41.3	37.9	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	41.3	37.9	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	41.3	37.9	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	41.3	37.9	1689
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	41.3	37.9	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	41.3	37.9	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	41.3	37.9	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	41.3	37.9	4894
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	41.3	37.9	21482

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
	sedznpb-00472	41.3	37.9	39.6±1.7							Yes				3652	Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Leadville	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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