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Locality Name:
Island Mountain District, Elko Co., Nevada, USA


mindat Locality ID: 36680
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36680.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Island Mountain District, Elko Co., Nevada, USA": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Coleman Mine
Diamond Jim Mine (Mardis Claim)
Foss Prospect
Gribble Antimony Mine (Star Metal Mine; McKinson; Winnie Quartz)
Hope (Horseshoe Adits; Owyhee; Horseshoe Nos. 1-6; See Orvana Project - 0320070339)
Little Joe Mine (Silver Shiek Mine)
Mink Mine
Mystery; Good Luck; Good Morning; Pot Luck Claims (Mystery John; Mystery Joker?)
Penrod Placer Mine
Rosebud Claims
St. Elmo Mine (Gold Standard No. 2 Mine)
Tater Claims

Latitude: 41°45'30"N
Longitude: 115°44'46"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.758333333333,-115.74611111111
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 Au Ba C Ca Cu Fe Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Cu Fe S Sb Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteArsenopyriteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteCopperMolybdeniteNonePyriteQuartz
RocksaltScheeliteSphaleriteStibniteTetrahedrite

17 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Baryte  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Kermesite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Stibnite  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)Valentinite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S12360942793
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS09052
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)123610411547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)2236096,23609827770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS22236096,23609827198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS123609424243
Gold  (*)CopperAu123610130554
Kermesite  (*)NoneSb2OS21236096230
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS212360985800
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22236096,23609839462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO23236094,236095,23609661156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)2236096,2360984894
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS123609421482
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S32236095,2360963418
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S1312360941803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1305317
Valentinite  (*)NoneSb2O31236096369


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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