Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Diamond District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36770
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36770.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Diamond District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Black Diamond Mine
Black Point Mine (Silver Ledge Mine; Wynona Mine)
Champion Mine
Diamond Mine
Eagle Roost Claims
Frazer Claims
Phillipsburg Mine
Silver Bell Mine
Standard Copper Mine
Steel Galena Mine
Wilcox Claims
Will McBride Claims

Latitude: 39°42'30"N
Longitude: 115°52'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.708333333333,-115.88305555556

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.

Alunite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Malachite ()*	Plattnerite ()*
Plumbojarosite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	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: Au C Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	237003	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	237006	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	237004	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4	237003,237004,237006,237010	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	237007	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	8	237000,237002,237003,237006,237007,237009,237010,237011	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	237009	30554
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	237003	1689
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	237006	12537
Plattnerite ()*	Rutile	PbO₂	1	237003	158
Plumbojarosite ()*	Alunite	Pb_0.5Fe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	237003	477
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	237003,237006	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	237003,237004,237006	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	237007	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	237003,237007	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	2	237006,237010	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	4	237002,237003,237006,237010	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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