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Locality Name:
Birthday Vein, National District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 15.6
Youngest recorded age at locality: 15.6

mindat Locality ID: 62140
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-62140.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Birthday Vein, National District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 41°49'30"N
Longitude: 117°35'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.825,-117.58972222222

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.

Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Marcasite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Marcasite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Naumannite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	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: Ag Al As Au Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Se Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Au Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Se Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Marcasite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	15.6	15.6	9052
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	15.6	15.6	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	15.6	15.6	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	15.6	15.6	30554
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	15.6	15.6	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	15.6	15.6	17380
Naumannite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ag₂Se	15.6	15.6	192
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	15.6	15.6	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	15.6	15.6	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	15.6	15.6	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	15.6	15.6	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	15.6	15.6	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	15.6	15.6	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	15.6	15.6	5317

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Emily000544	15.6	15.6		K-Ar	vein formation					Yes				62749	Buckskin Mountain, National District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA	Buckskin Mountain, National District, Humbolt County, Nevada	Vikre (1985)	10.2113/gsecongeo.80.2.360	EG80_360	average of two samples; BN2-268 and BN2-297

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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