Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Monarch Mine, Lion Hill Area, Ophir District, Oquirrh Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 38978
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-38978.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Monarch Mine, Lion Hill Area, Ophir District, Oquirrh Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Eastside Mine
Empire Mine
Iron Mine
Northern Light Mine (Shamrock)
Woodruff Mine (Trace Group)

Latitude: 40°21'43"N
Longitude: 112°14'39"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.361944444444,-112.24416666667

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.

Alunite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Fluorite	Gypsum	Mica	None
Quartz	Rocksalt	Talc

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 Au Ba C Ca Cl F Fe H K Mg O Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Fe H K O Pb S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Copper Fluorite Gypsum Mica None
Quartz Rocksalt Talc

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Jarosite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Plumbojarosite ()*	Quartz ()*	Talc ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	4	277479,277480,277481,277482	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	277479,277480,277481,277482,277483	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	0		4979
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	4	277479,277481,277482,277483	1382
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	4	277479,277480,277482,277483	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	277479	9617
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	277479,277480,277481,277482,277483	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	3	277479,277480,277481	6890
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0		2228
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	277481,277482,277483	17380
Plumbojarosite ()*	Alunite	Pb_0.5Fe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	4	277479,277480,277481,277483	477
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	277483	61156
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	4	277479,277480,277481,277482	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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