Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
American Fork District, Wasatch Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 32.4
Youngest recorded age at locality: 31.4

mindat Locality ID: 37483
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-37483.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "American Fork District, Wasatch Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA": 40
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 39

Number of Child Localities: 39
Child Localities:
Bay State Mine (Kelly Tunnel; Tyler Tunnel)
Bog Mine
Borussia Occurrence
Centennial Tunnel (Utah Centennial Mining Company)
Dutchman Mine (Wild Dutchman Mine)
Floral Lode
Galena Tunnel Occurrence (South Park; South Park Mining And Development Company)
Globe Mine
Hobnail Mine
Lake Solitude
Live Yankee Mine
Major Evans Gulch
Mary Ellen Mine
Merril Flat West Adits Occurrence
Miller Mine (Miller Mining And Smelting Company; Lady Annie Tunnel; Lost Hope Tunnel; Wyoming Tunnel)
Mineral Flat Group Mine
Mineral Flat NE Mines (Alta Merger Mines Company; Anna; Orphan; Dieh; LEstella; Utah 76 Claims; Boyd Park)
Mineral Flat SW Prospects (Albion Consolidated Mining Company; Alta United Mines Company; Niagara Claim; Mineral Flat Mining Company; Big Emma Cliam; Waterfall Claim; South Hecla Mining Company)
Mount Baldy Prospects (Dryburgh Claim Group; Alta Merger Mines Company)
Mountain Dell Group (Miller Hill Mining Company)
New Discovery Occurrence
Non Compromise
Orphan
Pacific Mine (Blue Rock)
Pittsburgh Mine (Pittsburg Consolidated M. And M. Company; Pioneer Consolidated)
Red Cloud
Silver Bell Mine
Silver Dipper Mine
Silver Dollar
Silver Lake Area
Silver Wave
Sunday Tunnel
Texan Prospect
Treasure Consolidated Group (Treasurer Mine)
Utah Centennial Occurrence
Water Fall Vein
Whirlwind Tunnel (Dutchman Coalition Mines Company; Dutchman Mine; Wild Dutchman)
Yankee Consolidated Mine
Yankee Mine (Globe; Mary Ellen; West Extension; Live Yankee; Belorophan)

Latitude: 40°32'51"N
Longitude: 111°37'8"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.5475,-111.61888888889

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.

Acanthite	Alunite	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum
Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite
Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tetradymite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kermesite ()*	Malachite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Monticellite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Plumbojarosite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*
Stibnite ()*	Tetradymite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mo O P Pb S Sb Si Te Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Bi Ca Mg Mo O S Si Te

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Alunite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum
Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Olivine Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite
Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Tetradymite Tetrahedrite

29 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	32.4	31.4	5	278369,278379,278389,278396,278398	2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	32.4	31.4	1	278379	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	32.4	31.4	9	278365,278366,278369,278372,278382,278388,278399,278403,278404	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	32.4	31.4	2	278381,278382	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	32.4	31.4	3	278379,278382,278389	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	32.4	31.4	3	278369,278379,278389	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	32.4	31.4	9	278369,278372,278375,278377,278381,278382,278401,278403,278404	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	32.4	31.4	7	278371,278372,278373,278382,278383,278391,278399	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	32.4	31.4	23	278365,278366,278367,278369,278370,278371,278372,278375,278376,278377,278379,278381,278382,278388,278389,278392,278396,278398,278399,278400,278401,278403,278404	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	32.4	31.4	5	278369,278379,278389,278401,278403	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	32.4	31.4	1	278366	14640
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	32.4	31.4	3	278375,278377,278403	784
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	32.4	31.4	1	278389	2228
Kermesite ()*	None	Sb₂OS₂	32.4	31.4	1	278365	230
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	32.4	31.4	6	278369,278379,278381,278383,278388,278401	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	32.4	31.4	0		5800
Monticellite ()*	Olivine	CaMg(SiO₄)	32.4	31.4	0		153
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	32.4	31.4	1	278389	17380
Plumbojarosite ()*	Alunite	Pb_0.5Fe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	32.4	31.4	2	278379,278389	477
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	32.4	31.4	10	278366,278369,278375,278377,278382,278388,278392,278399,278400,278403	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	32.4	31.4	1	278394	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	32.4	31.4	10	278366,278369,278372,278379,278388,278389,278392,278396,278400,278401	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	32.4	31.4	3	278369,278379,278401	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	32.4	31.4	13	278365,278366,278369,278370,278372,278379,278382,278388,278392,278400,278401,278403,278404	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	32.4	31.4	1	278374	1934
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	32.4	31.4	1	278365	3418
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	32.4	31.4	0		510
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	32.4	31.4	9	278366,278370,278372,278382,278388,278392,278400,278403,278404	5317
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	32.4	31.4	2	278369,278379	1655

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
	sedznpb-00440	32.4	31.4	32.4–31.4											37483	American Fork District, Wasatch Mts, Utah Co., Utah, USA	American Fork	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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