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Locality Name:
Mineral Hill District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36776
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36776.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mineral Hill District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Bruffeys Hot Springs
Grant Mine
Mary Ann Mine
Mineral Hill Consolidated Mining Co. Mines

Latitude: 40°13'11"N
Longitude: 116°4'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.219722222222,-116.06861111111

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.

Acanthite	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Fluorite	Malachite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group
Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bromargyrite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	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: Ag Ba Br C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Mo O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag As Cu O Pb S Sb Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Fluorite Malachite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group
Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	2	237173,237175	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	0		2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	237175	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	237172,237175	11547
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	1	237175	227
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	237172,237175	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	237175	4979
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	237175	1382
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	237172	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	237174,237175,237178	24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	237175	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	237175	5800
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	0		716
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	237175	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	237175	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	0		61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	237174,237175,237178	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	1	237175	586
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	237175	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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