Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Blue River District, Lane Co., Oregon, USA

mindat Locality ID: 50188
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50188.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blue River District, Lane Co., Oregon, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Durango Group
Elma Mves
Evening Group (Evening And Morning Claims)
Gold Hill
Great Western Occurrence
Lucky Boy
Lucky Boy Mine
Lucky Girl Occurrence
Merger Gold Mining Company Occurrence
Morning Group (Evening And Morning Claims)
Rialto Occurrence (Blue Bird)
Rowena Group (Ravena?)
Tate Property
Treasure
Tri-Metals Occurrence
Uncle Sam
Union Mine

Latitude: 44°12'43"N
Longitude: 122°20'41"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.211944444444,-122.34472222222

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.

Chalcopyrite	Copper	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

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: Au Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cu S Sb Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Copper None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	260630,260636,260637	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	260630,260637	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	260629	30554
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	260630,260635,260636,260637,260638	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	260628,260630,260635,260636,260637,260638	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	260630,260636,260637	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	0		5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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