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Locality Name:
Placer Creek, Red River District, Taos Co., New Mexico, USA


mindat Locality ID: 48458
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-48458.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Placer Creek, Red River District, Taos Co., New Mexico, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Blue Rock Claim
Buffalo Mine (Silver King Mine; Black Rock Group)
Compton's Silver King Prospect (Sylvia Tunnel Prospect)
Deadwood Claim
Gold Placers
Gold Reef Prospect
Jay Hawk Mine
Nashville Prospect
Oldham Prospects
Purkapile Prospect
Scarlet Prospect

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 C Ca Cu F Fe K O Pb S Sb Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al K O Si 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteArsenopyriteCalciteChalcopyriteCopperFeldsparFluoriteNonePyriteQuartz
RocksaltSphalerite

13 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Fluorite  (*)
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Orthoclase  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Silver  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S2247623,2476282793
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS12476289052
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)124763127770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2124762827198
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF212476319617
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS124762824243
Gold  (*)CopperAu124762230554
Orthoclase  (*)FeldsparK(AlSi3O8)02349
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS312476281425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS28247622,247623,247627,247628,247629,247630,247631,24763239462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO28247622,247623,247627,247628,247629,247630,247631,24763261156
Silver  (*)CopperAg12476235186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS124762821482


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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