Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Charleston District, Spring Mts, Clark Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36548
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36548.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Charleston District, Spring Mts, Clark Co., Nevada, USA": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Ada And Edith Claims (J And S Group)
Blue Diamond Mine
Charleston
Five Star Lead Property (Five Star Mine; Holmes Prospect; El Lobo Claims; Apex Claims)
Griffith Mine (Stanley B Mine)
Iron Age Claims
Lucky Strike Mine
White Beauty Deposit (Londo Deposit)
Zeinka Mine (Leona; Little Jake)

Latitude: 36°15'40"N
Longitude: 115°34'18"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.261111111111,-115.57166666667

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.

Arsenic	Calcite	Gypsum	Malachite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Rocksalt	Scheelite

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: C Ca Cu H K Mo N Na O Pb S Sb

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Mo O Pb S Sb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Calcite Gypsum Malachite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Rocksalt Scheelite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Anhydrite ()*	Antimony ()*	Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Malachite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Niter ()*	Nitratine ()*	Wulfenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	235329	1588
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	0		363
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	235328,235331	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	3	235329,235331,235335	6890
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	235331	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	0		5800
Niter ()*	None	K(NO₃)	1	235330	181
Nitratine ()*	Calcite	Na(NO₃)	1	235330	91
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	0		1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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