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Locality Name:
Era District, Blaine Co., Idaho, USA


mindat Locality ID: 39448
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39448.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Era District, Blaine Co., Idaho, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Ella Mine
Reliance Mine
St. Louis Mine

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 As C Cl Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteAragoniteCalciteChalcopyriteNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltSphaleriteTetrahedrite
Wurtzite

13 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chlorargyrite  (*)Galena  (*)
Jamesonite  (*)Proustite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Smithsonite  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)Wurtzite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S2204502,2045042793
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)2204502,2045044979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS22204503,20450427198
Chlorargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgCl2204502,2045041382
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2204503,20450424243
Jamesonite  (*)NonePb4FeSb6S141204503784
Proustite  (*)NoneAg3AsS32204502,204504733
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22204503,20450439462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22204503,20450461156
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)2204502,2045042473
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS2204503,20450421482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S132204502,2045045317
Wurtzite  (*)WurtziteZnS2204503,204504372



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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