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Locality Name:
Breckenridge District, Summit Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 3689
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3689.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Breckenridge District, Summit Co., Colorado, USA": 116
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 109

Number of Child Localities: 97
Child Localities:
Alice A Tunnel
Australia Gulch Placers
Barney Ford Hill
Big Sally Barber F7T
Blue River Placers
Bon Ton Occurrence
Bowery Tunnel
Brewery Hill Breccia No. 2 Mine
Brooks - Snider (Brooks - Snyder)
Brown Gulch
Browns Gulch
Bullion King
Cally Mine
Carbonate Mine (Carbonate Group; Carbonite)
Commodore Placer
Como Claims
Country Boy Mine
Delaware Flats Placer
Detroit - Hicks (Standard)
Dewey
Dry Gulch Placers
Dunkin; Juniata; Puzzle; Ouray; Gold Dust; Washington
Edna
Emperor Tunnel
Erueka Shaft Mine
Excelsior
Farncomb Hill Placers
Finding Shaft (Deep Shaft)
Fox Lake Mine
Fremont - Vineta Group
French Gulch
Galena Gulch Placers
Georgia Gulch
Germania
Gibson Gulch Placers
Gibson Hill
Gold Bell; Gold Edge (Golden Edge)
Gold Cord Tunnel
Gold Nugget Placer
Gold Run Gulch Placers
Goose Pasture Placers
Hamilton
Harrison Tunnel
Hellen Mine
Hendrix Gold Mining Property
I.X.L. (Royal Tiger; Cashier)
Iron Mask Occurrence
Jeff Davis Patch Placers
Jessie Mine (B And B Mines Inc)
Joe Glidden Occurrence (Joe Gliddon)
Johannesburg Tunnel (New York Claims)
Jumbo Occurrence
Juventa Occurrence (Juventa Mine Shaft; McLeod Tunnel)
Kellogg Mine
Leona
Little Corporal Mine
Little Sally Barber
Lone Bug
Louis D Shaft
Maxwell
Mayo Gulch Placers
Middlesex Mine
Mineral Hill
Minnesota (McBarnes; Bevan)
Monitor
Mount Guyot (Mount Gugot)
Mountain Pride; Laurium (Larium; Blue Flag)
Naperville Tunnel
Nebraska
New York Mine (New Yolk Claims; New York Tunnel)
Nickel Plate
Niggar Placer (Lillian Vale)
Old Ironsides Mine
Pacific - Gold Dust
Player
Puzzle Ouray
Rose Of Breckinridge
Royal Tiger Group
Sallie Barber Mine
Siam Mountain
Silence
South Barton Gulch Placers
Standard No. 1
Streng
Sultana Mine
Tommy Mine
Unknown Gold (MRDS - 10239957)
Unknown Gold (MRDS - 10239989)
Unknown Gold (MRDS - 10240298)
Unknown Gold (MRDS - 10289296)
Unknown Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10018293)
Unknown Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10018316)
Washington
Weber Gulch Placers
Wellington Mine (Siam Tunnel; Old Oro Tunnel; Mill Tunnel; Liberty Tunnel; Extenuate Tunnel; Wellington Tunnel; Abundance Tunnel; New Tunnel; Oro Shaft)
Willard
Wire Patch Placer

Latitude: 39°28'57"N
Longitude: 106°'44"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.4825,-106.01222222222

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.

Acanthite	Allophane	Alunite	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenic	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay
Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Gypsum	Kaolinite
Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite
Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Sulphur	Tetrahedrite	Titanite	Zircon

Acanthite ()*	Albite ()*	Andradite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*
Augite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Iridium ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Lead ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Microcline ()*
Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Platinum ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rhodochrosite ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Titanite ()*	Vanadinite ()*	Wulfenite ()*
Zircon ()*

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 Cl Cu F Fe H Ir K Mg Mn Mo Na O Pb Pt S Sb Si Ti V Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb Si Ti V Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Alunite Apatite Aragonite Arsenic Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay
Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Gypsum Kaolinite
Malachite Marcasite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite
Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Sulphur Tetrahedrite Titanite Zircon

46 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	197674	2793
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	0		8803
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	4	197634,197638,197662,197676	1534
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	3	197641,197652,197720	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	4	197633,197711,197714,197740	3092
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	0		2060
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	197649	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	197721,197740	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	197662	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	3	197662,197669,197686	1935
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	8	197633,197649,197663,197667,197676,197682,197697,197740	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	11	197649,197652,197687,197697,197704,197705,197706,197707,197720,197723,197740	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	197649,197669,197686,197714	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	197674	1382
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	197629,197649	3531
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	197634,197676	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	197669	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	22	197633,197641,197644,197646,197651,197652,197669,197670,197682,197686,197689,197697,197704,197705,197706,197707,197708,197711,197714,197720,197723,197740	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	0		7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	20	197631,197652,197663,197664,197666,197667,197668,197669,197670,197672,197673,197675,197682,197684,197686,197689,197692,197693,197708,197740	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	3	197651,197662,197663	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	197660,197676,197729	14640
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir	2	197673,197676	162
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	197652	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	197669	5591
Lead ()*	Copper	Pb	0		192
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	197660,197717,197729	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	197663,197717	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	197686	5674
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	0		4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	197682,197689	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	197710	2349
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	1	197673	485
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	21	197633,197644,197646,197649,197651,197659,197660,197669,197670,197682,197686,197689,197692,197697,197708,197711,197714,197721,197723,197729,197740	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	10	197652,197660,197669,197674,197676,197682,197686,197711,197714,197729	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	197669	1711
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	5	197644,197697,197721,197723,197740	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	5	197674,197689,197693,197708,197740	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	3	197697,197723,197740	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	17	197633,197644,197646,197651,197659,197669,197670,197682,197684,197686,197689,197697,197711,197714,197721,197723,197740	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	197687	2045
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	197740	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	0		4899
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	0		605
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	0		1655
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	0		5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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