Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Bottle Creek District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36832
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36832.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bottle Creek District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Baldwin Mine
Baldwin Mine (Blue Bottle Mine; Blue Bucket Mine)
Birthday Mine (Wootan Mine; Wootan And McCown Mine)
Blue Can Mine (Bottle Creek Mercury Mine; Tin Can Mine)
Buff Peak Prospect
McAdoo Mine (Bluebird Mine)
Niebuhr Mine (Sunset-Big Four Group)
Red Ore Mine
White Peaks Mine (Scossa Mine; Bottle Creek Mine)

Latitude: 41°21'41"N
Longitude: 118°19'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.361388888889,-118.325

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.

Calcite	Clay	Kaolinite	Meta-autunite	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite
Stibnite	Topaz	Zircon

Calcite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*
Thorite ()*	Topaz ()*	Weeksite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 C Ca F Fe H Hg K Mg Mo Na O P S Sb Si Th U Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: S Sb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Clay Kaolinite Meta-autunite Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite
Stibnite Topaz Zircon

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	237268	27770
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	8	237261,237262,237263,237264,237266,237267,237268,237269	2600
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	237265	5591
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	1	237265	388
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	237265	5800
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	237265	1508
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	237265	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	237265	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	237265	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	0		3418
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1	237265	1006
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	237265	1476
Weeksite ()*	None	(K)₂(UO₂)₂(Si₅O₁₃)·4H₂O	1	237265	42
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	237265	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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