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Locality Name:
Ophir District (Iron Springs District), San Miguel Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 50127
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50127.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ophir District (Iron Springs District), San Miguel Co., Colorado, USA": 112
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 110

Number of Child Localities: 110
Child Localities:
Alta Mine (Alta Group; Alta - St. Louis)
American Frenchman Mine
Atlas Mine (Atlas & Clara Mine)
Attica Occurrence
Badger Mine (Badger Tunnel; Getrude)
Black Hawk Tunnel (Alta Group)
Black Warrior
Bog Iron Pit (Chapman Gulch Spring Type)
Boston And Navite Mine
Butterfly Mine
Calamine Mine
Calumet
Carbonero Mine
Carribeau Mine
Colorado Mine
Commercial Mine
Contention Mine
Court House - Dynamo Mine (Court House Mine)
Creve Coeur
Crown Jewell Mine
Crown Point Mine
Deadwood Mine
Double Eagle Mine
Electric Mine
Fairview Mine
Favorite Tunnel (Exploration At Favorite)
Ferric Oxide Mine
Garibaldi Mine (Garabaldi - San Bernardo Mine)
Gertrude
Glasier Placer Nos. 1; 2
Gold King
Gold King Group
Gold Medal
Gold Run Placer & Mill
Golden Rose
Grace Mine
Hamilton Mine
Happy Home (Roanoak Placer)
Hattie Mine (Hattie Group)
Highline
Honduras Occurrence (South Fork; Tombo)
Ida Shaft
Illinois
Iron Springs Group
Lake View Group
Lewis Mine
Little Boy Mine
Little Dorrit
Little Eva Mine
Little Joe Crosscut
Lucky Strike Placer
Maryland
Matterhorn Mine
Mohawk
Montana Vein (Revenue Tunnel)
Mountain Flower
Mountain Quail
Moyer & Tuscon
Nellie & Laura Mine (Nellie Mine)
Nevada Mine
New Dominion Mine
North Slope Mine
O'Reilly Mine (Oreilly)
Old Butterfly Mine
Ophir Iron Springs Mine
Ophir Mine
Ophir Tunnel (1)
Ophir Valley Occurrence (New Dominion; Nevada Gulch; Silver Tip Lower Yellow Jacket; Chapman Gulch)
Osceola Mine
Palmyra Mine
Paragon Mine
Pike County Mine
Pioneer Mine
Porcupine Mine
Purdy Lease
Redcloud Mine
Roy Johnson Mine
Royal Group - Nelson Tunnel
San Bernardo Mine
San Bernardo Valley View Mine
Santa Cruz (Santa Cruse)
Sarah Mine
Shamus O'Brien Mine
Shoemaker Mine
Silver Bar
Silver Bell Mine
Silver Chief Mine
Silver King Mine
Silver Tip Mine
Single Standard Mine
Spar Group No. 1; 2; 3; 4; 5
St. James
Telluride Mine
Terrible Mine
Texaco Mine
Townsend Mine
Trout Lake
Turkey Creek Mine
Turkey King Occurrence
U. S. Mines
Unknown Gold Occurrence [1]
Unknown Molybdenum Occurrence [1]
Vagabond
Van Occurrence (Kentucky; Dakota; Union)
Vera Mine
W. G. Claggett Mine
Warren Placer
Wasatch Mine
Woodie Mine (Woody Mine)
Zambodga Mine

Latitude: 37°52'9"N
Longitude: 107°49'43"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.869166666667,-107.82861111111

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	Aragonite	Arsenic	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Copper	Corundum
Diaspore	Epidote	Fluorite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pavonite	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Wollastonite

Anhydrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuth ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Freibergite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Hübnerite ()*
Jarosite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Molybdite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Natrojarosite ()*	Pavonite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rhodochrosite ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Wollastonite ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 Au Ba Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Arsenic Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Copper Corundum
Diaspore Epidote Fluorite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pavonite Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Tetrahedrite Wollastonite

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	0		1588
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	196802,196867,196871	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	196882	1966
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	196867,196880	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	196802	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	5	196811,196861,196867,196869,196882	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	196873	9895
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	1	196869	345
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	2	196802,196861	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	9	196802,196811,196861,196867,196869,196871,196873,196880,196882	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	0		7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3	196832,196870,196873	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	196867	14640
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	1	196869	469
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0		2228
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	196867	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	196869	5800
Molybdite ()*	None	MoO₃	1	196869	140
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	196869	17380
Natrojarosite ()*	Alunite	NaFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0		254
Pavonite ()*	Pavonite	AgBi₃S₅	1	196882	72
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	196880	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	196861,196867,196869,196873	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	11	196802,196832,196861,196867,196869,196870,196871,196873,196880,196888,196889	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	196880	1711
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	0		6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	196814,196867,196869	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	196871	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	196802,196811	5317
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	0		1247
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	196815	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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