Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
W. Wilson Mine (Liverpool Mine), Clancy-Lump Gulch Mining District, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 60
Youngest recorded age at locality: 5.3

mindat Locality ID: 166261
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-166261.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "W. Wilson Mine (Liverpool Mine), Clancy-Lump Gulch Mining District, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 46°26'49"N
Longitude: 111°59'8"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.446944444444,-111.98555555556

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	Amorphous	Aragonite	Autunite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Covellite	Fluorite	Kaolinite	Malachite
Meta-autunite	Mica	None	Phosphuranylite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Acanthite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Autunite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*
Galena ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*	Metatorbernite ()*
Metauranocircite-I ()*	Metazeunerite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Uranophane-β ()*
Phosphuranylite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Uraninite ()*
Uranocircite-II ()*	Uranophane-α ()*

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

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K O P Pb S Si U Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amorphous Aragonite Autunite Chalcopyrite Clay Covellite Fluorite Kaolinite Malachite
Meta-autunite Mica None Phosphuranylite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	60	5.3	2793
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	60	5.3	3250
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	60	5.3	1272
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	60	5.3	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	60	5.3	4165
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	60	5.3	24243
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	60	5.3	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	60	5.3	12537
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	60	5.3	388
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	60	5.3	443
Metauranocircite-I ()*	None	Ba(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	60	5.3	38
Metazeunerite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	60	5.3	182
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	60	5.3	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	60	5.3	2994
Uranophane-β ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	60	5.3	144
Phosphuranylite ()*	Phosphuranylite	KCa(H₃O)₃(UO₂)₇(PO₄)₄O₄·8H₂O	60	5.3	182
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	60	5.3	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	60	5.3	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	60	5.3	21482
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	60	5.3	2718
Uranocircite-II ()*	None	Ba(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10H₂O	60	5.3	89
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	60	5.3	890

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Giersdorf_00000882	Boulder batholith in western Montana extends from a few miles south of Helena to about 20 miles south of Butte. The northern part of the hatholith includes most of the batholith north of the latitude of Boulder and a narrow strip near the east margin of the batholith south of Boulder. This area lies between the Elkhorn mountains on the east and the rather broad, high-level surface making up the Continental Divide on the west. Although the area is mountainous, the topography is not rugged but is characterized by smoothly rounded ridges commonlya bout 1,000 feet above the major valleys. Most of the higher valleys were occupied by glaciers in the Pleistocene epoch, but typical alpine cirques are rare. The localities listed here are the Uranium deposits found within the Boulder Batholith.

Age ID

Locality Notes

Giersdorf_00000882

Boulder batholith in western Montana extends from a few miles south of Helena to about 20 miles south of Butte. The northern part of the hatholith includes most of the batholith north of the latitude of Boulder and a narrow strip near the east margin of the batholith south of Boulder. This area lies between the Elkhorn mountains on the east and the rather broad, high-level surface making up the Continental Divide on the west. Although the area is mountainous, the topography is not rugged but is characterized by smoothly rounded ridges commonlya bout 1,000 feet above the major valleys. Most of the higher valleys were occupied by glaciers in the Pleistocene epoch, but typical alpine cirques are rare. The localities listed here are the Uranium deposits found within the Boulder Batholith.

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
	Giersdorf_00000882	60	5.3	60-paleocene				alaskite						U	166261	W. Wilson Mine (Liverpool Mine), Clancy-Lump Gulch Mining District, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA	W. Wilson Mine	Becraft (1956)	10.2113/gsecongeo.51.4.362	EG51_362	The age for the Uranium deposits of the Boulder Batholith are described as being post-Alaskite of 60 Ma and pre-Dacite, which is described as being early Oligocene by one of the author's references up to Miocene by another.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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