Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Alpha District, Sulphur Spring Range, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36764
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36764.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Alpha District, Sulphur Spring Range, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Cougar Hill
Old Whalen Mine
Prince Of Wales Mine
Tiger Claims
Unnamed Silver-copper Claims

Latitude: 39°57'57"N
Longitude: 116°6'34"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.965833333333,-116.10944444444

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.

Allophane	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Corundum	Malachite	Minium	None	Not in a structural group
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cornubite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Galena ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Malachite ()*	Massicot ()*
Minium ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Mg O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Corundum Malachite Minium None Not in a structural group
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
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2	237222,237223	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	237222	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	237222,237223	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	237222,237223	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	237222	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	237222	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	237222	3531
Cornubite ()*	None	Cu₅(AsO₄)₂(OH)₄	1	237222	109
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	237222	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	237222	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	237222,237223	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	237222	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	2	237222,237223	1689
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	237222	12537
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	2	237222,237223	202
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄	1	237222	247
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	237222,237223	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	237222,237223	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	237222	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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