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Locality Name:
Little Chopaka Mountain, Nighthawk, Nighthawk District, Okanogan Co., Washington, USA


mindat Locality ID: 16380
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-16380.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Little Chopaka Mountain, Nighthawk, Nighthawk District, Okanogan Co., Washington, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
California Claim
Little Chopaka Claim (Defence Claim)
Peerless Claim
Worthington Claims

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: Al C Ca Cr Cu Fe H O Pb S Si Zn 

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CalciteChalcopyriteClinozoisiteEpidoteGarnetMalachiteNickelineNonePyriteQuartz
RocksaltSphaleriteSpinel

13 IMA Minerals at location:
Bornite  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chromite  (*)Epidote  (*)
Galena  (*)Grossular  (*)Magnetite  (*)Malachite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Pyrrhotite  (*)Quartz  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS412850655516
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)027770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS22285065,28506727198
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O43285066,285067,2850683902
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)12850678173
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS128506524243
Grossular  (*)GarnetCa3Al2(SiO4)301544
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4128506714899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2128506512537
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22285065,28506739462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S812850679056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2128506561156
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS128506521482


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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