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Locality Name:
Lincoln Mining District, Lewis And Clark Co., Montana, USA


mindat Locality ID: 68355
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-68355.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lincoln Mining District, Lewis And Clark Co., Montana, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Big Blackfoot (Blackfoot Underground)
Blackfoot Mine (Big Blackfoot Surface Mine)
Cotter Mine
Discovery And Margurete Mine
Lady Luck Placer
Lincoln
Lincoln Gulch Placer Mine (Maggie Lick Broke Her Pick)
Lincoln Gulch Placers
Liverpool Creek Occurrence
Margarette Occurrence
Osgood Placer Group
Robinson And Flesher Mine
Sauerkraut Gulch Placer (Robinson And Flesher Mine)
Stonewall Creek
Willow Creek Prospect

Latitude: 46°56'50"N
Longitude: 112°43'25"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.947222222222,-112.72361111111

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: Au C Ca Fe O S Si W 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Fe O S 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CalciteCopperNonePyriteQuartzScheeliteSpinel

6 IMA Minerals at location:
Gold  (*)Magnetite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)
Siderite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Gold  (*)CopperAu4230121,230124,230129,23013430554
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4123012114899
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2039462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2123012161156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)12301294894
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)06417



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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