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Locality Name:
Metaline, Metaline District, Pend Oreille Co., Washington, USA

mindat Locality ID: 25305
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-25305.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Metaline, Metaline District, Pend Oreille Co., Washington, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Bella May Mine
Blue Bucket Mine
Blue Jim Prospect
Coffin Prospect
Diamond R Mine
Fairview Claim
Giant Flying Squirrel Mine
Lehigh No. 1
Lehigh No. 2
Metaline Mine
O.K. Mine
Oriole Mine
Riverside Prospect
Schultz Placer
Sterling Mine
West Contact Mine
Wolf Creek Prospect

Latitude: 48°51'5"N
Longitude: 117°23'52"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.851388888889,-117.39777777778

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.

Amphibole	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Gypsum	Humite
Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Palygorskite	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz
Rocksalt	Scheelite	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Sulphur	Tetrahedrite	Topaz

Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinohumite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*
Galena ()*	Glaucophane ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Palygorskite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Sulphur ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Topaz ()*
Tremolite ()*	Vermiculite ()*	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: Al As Au Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Gypsum Humite
Malachite Marcasite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Palygorskite Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz
Rocksalt Scheelite Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Sulphur Tetrahedrite Topaz

33 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	285296	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	285296	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	7	285286,285288,285289,285291,285296,285297,285300	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	5	285285,285286,285289,285296,285300	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	285287	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	285287,285296,285297	27198
Clinohumite ()*	Humite	Mg₉(SiO₄)₄F₂	1	285288	236
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	2	285288,285295	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	285285,285289,285296	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	10	285285,285286,285287,285289,285295,285296,285297,285299,285300,285301	24243
Glaucophane ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Mg₃Al₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	285295	286
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	285298	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	285297,285301	6890
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	2	285296,285301	1689
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	285290	5433
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	285287,285296	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	285285	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	285296	17380
Palygorskite ()*	Palygorskite Clay	(Mg,Al)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)·4H₂O	3	285285,285286,285301	306
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	285285,285295,285296,285297,285299	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	285295	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	285285,285290,285295,285296	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	4	285285,285286,285287,285300	6417
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	6	285285,285286,285289,285291,285296,285300	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	8	285285,285286,285289,285295,285296,285299,285300,285301	21482
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	285297	2045
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	285287	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	285295,285296	5317
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	285295	1476
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	285295	2562
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	1	285288	652
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	285289	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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