Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Culver Gulch, Blewett, Blewett District (Peshastin District), Chelan Co., Washington, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 162
Youngest recorded age at locality: 160

mindat Locality ID: 52390
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-52390.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Culver Gulch, Blewett, Blewett District (Peshastin District), Chelan Co., Washington, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Alta Vista Mine (Pole Pick 2 Claim)
Blinn Claims
Bobtail Claim (Wye Claim)
Culver Mine
Gem Claim
Gold Bond Group
Hummingbird Mine
Keynote Claim
North Star Mine
Peshastin Mine
Phoenix Claim
Pole Pick 1 Claim (Ellinor Mining Company)
Sandell Mine
Wilder Mine (Ivanhoe Claim; White Elephant Claim; Amber Glee Claim; Kennilworth Claim)

Latitude: 47°25'28"N
Longitude: 120°39'31"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.424444444444,-120.65861111111

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	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Malachite	None	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Spinel	Stibnite	Talc

Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Copper ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Mercury ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Stibnite ()*
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: As Au C Ca Cr Cu Fe H Hg Mg O Pb S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Malachite None Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Spinel Stibnite Talc

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	12	283484,283485,283486,283491,283492,283495,283496,283497,283498,283499,283502,283503	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	13	283484,283486,283487,283488,283490,283491,283492,283496,283497,283498,283499,283502,283503	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	8	283485,283486,283487,283488,283490,283496,283499,283503	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	283503	3902
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	283503	2600
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	283485,283503	3846
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	283499,283503	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	9	283491,283492,283495,283496,283497,283499,283501,283502,283503	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	283503	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	283503	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	283503	12537
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	1	283495	397
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	13	283484,283485,283486,283487,283488,283490,283492,283495,283496,283498,283499,283502,283503	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	16	283484,283486,283487,283488,283490,283491,283492,283495,283496,283497,283498,283499,283500,283501,283502,283503	61156
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	2	283499,283503	3418
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	8	283484,283491,283492,283496,283497,283498,283499,283502	3337

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
	NAVDAT-90815	162	160	161±1					90815						52701	Gem Claim, Culver Gulch, Blewett, Blewett District (Peshastin District), Chelan Co., Washington, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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