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Locality Name:
Zosell Mining District (Emery Mining District), Powell Co., Montana, USA

mindat Locality ID: 46570
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-46570.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Zosell Mining District (Emery Mining District), Powell Co., Montana, USA": 44
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 42

Number of Child Localities: 41
Child Localities:
Argus Mine
Baggs Creek Sapphire Deposit
Barry Dean Mine
Bell Mine
Bertha May Mine
Black Eyed May Mine
Blue Eye Maggie Mine
Bonanza Mine
Bull Moose Mine
Caroline And William Coleman Mine (Caroline Mine; William Coleman Mine)
Copper Cliff Prospects (Copper Bluff Prospects)
Deep Gulch (MRDS - 10094800)
Ding Bat Mine
Elizabeth Mine
Emery Mine (Black Rock; Carbonate Extension; Carbonate Hill Mine)
Emma Darling Mine
Fred Burr Creek Pumice Deposit
Friday Mine
Harisson Mine
Hercules Mine
Hidden Hand Mine (Baggs Creek; Lower Hidden Hand)
Incline Mine
Katy Mine
Kirby Mine
Little Emery Mine
Matheson Mine
Monday Mine
Mountain Chief Mine
Mullan Gulch Pumice Deposit
Nelson Prospect
Sabbath Day Mine
Sabbath Day Mine (Sabbath; Poor Man)
Saturday Mine
Spring Creek And Rocker Gulch Placers
Sterrett Mine
Sugarloaf Mountain Prospect
Thursday Mine
Tuesday Mine
Unnamed Gemstone Occurrence (MRDS - 10246075)
Wake Up Jim Mine
Wednesday Mine

Latitude: 45°48'2"N
Longitude: 112°34'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.800555555556,-112.57333333333

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.

Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Diaspore	Epidote
Geocronite	Malachite	Mica	Millerite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt
Scheelite	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Augite ()*	Boulangerite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Epidote ()*
Galena ()*	Geocronite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Jamesonite ()*
Malachite ()*	Millerite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rhodochrosite ()*	Scheelite ()*	Seligmannite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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: Al As Au C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Ni O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Cu Pb S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenopyrite Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Diaspore Epidote
Geocronite Malachite Mica Millerite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt
Scheelite Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	5	233158,233165,233167,233173,233174	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	8	233158,233163,233165,233167,233171,233173,233174,233179	9052
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	1	233168	2060
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	3	233164,233171,233173	843
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	233158,233168,233173,233174	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	233158,233179	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	13	233158,233162,233163,233164,233165,233166,233171,233173,233174,233179,233190,233191,233192	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	233168,233173	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	233173	2970
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	233168	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	19	233158,233161,233162,233163,233164,233165,233166,233167,233170,233171,233173,233174,233179,233182,233184,233190,233191,233192,233195	24243
Geocronite ()*	Geocronite	Pb₁₄Sb₆S₂₃	1	233173	133
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	233179	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	13	233158,233162,233163,233164,233165,233166,233167,233173,233174,233191,233192,233194,233195	30554
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	2	233165,233173	784
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	233173	12537
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	2	233158,233200	1066
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	233173	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	16	233158,233161,233162,233163,233164,233165,233167,233170,233171,233173,233174,233179,233182,233190,233191,233192	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	17	233158,233161,233162,233163,233164,233165,233166,233167,233168,233171,233173,233174,233179,233184,233190,233191,233192	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	233173	1711
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	233184	4894
Seligmannite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbAsS₃	0		64
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	17	233158,233162,233163,233164,233165,233166,233167,233170,233171,233173,233174,233179,233182,233190,233191,233192,233195	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	2	233164,233173	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	10	233162,233164,233165,233166,233171,233173,233184,233190,233191,233192	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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