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Locality Name:
Cuba City Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, USA


mindat Locality ID: 51785
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-51785.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cuba City Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 23
Child Localities:
Baxter Mine
Best Mine
Big Ten Mine
Connecting Link No. 1 Mine
Connecting Link No. 2 Mine
Cuba City Mine
Dall Mine (Cook Prospect)
Depp Mine
Elmo Mine (New Jersey Zinc)
Gritty Six Mine
Henrietta Mine
James Mine
Little Elm Mine
Masbruch Mine
Midway Mine
Peaceful Valley Mine
Pine Tree Mine
Pittsburg Mine
Raisbeck Mine (Raisbeck-Craig Mine)
Rico Mine
Roosevelt Mine
Trego-Anthony Mine
Wilkinson Mine

Latitude: 42°37'44"N
Longitude: 90°23'17"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.628888888889,-90.388055555556

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: As Ba C Ca Co Cu Fe H Mg Ni O Pb S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As C Co Ni O Pb S Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteCobaltiteDiasporeMarcasiteMilleriteNonePyrite
QuartzRocksaltSphaleriteWurtzite

15 IMA Minerals at location:
Baryte  (*)Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Cobaltite  (*)
Dolomite  (*)Galena  (*)Goethite  (*)Marcasite  (*)Millerite  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Smithsonite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Wurtzite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)8288310,288311,288316,288318,288319,288325,288327,28832811547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)23288307,288308,288309,288310,288311,288312,288313,288314,288315,288316,288317,288318,288319,288320,288321,288322,288323,288324,288325,288326,288327,288328,28832927770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)04979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS22288307,28831627198
Cobaltite  (*)CobaltiteCoAsS0966
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)223288307,288308,288309,288310,288311,288312,288313,288314,288315,288316,288317,288318,288319,288320,288321,288322,288323,288324,288325,288326,288327,288328,2883299895
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS16288307,288310,288311,288313,288314,288315,288316,288317,288318,288319,288323,288324,288325,288327,288328,28832924243
Goethite  (*)DiasporeFeO(OH)12883157437
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS216288307,288310,288311,288313,288314,288315,288316,288317,288318,288319,288321,288324,288325,288327,288328,2883295674
Millerite  (*)MilleriteNiS01066
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS223288307,288308,288309,288310,288311,288312,288313,288314,288315,288316,288317,288318,288319,288320,288321,288322,288323,288324,288325,288326,288327,288328,28832939462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO222288307,288308,288309,288310,288311,288312,288313,288314,288316,288317,288318,288319,288320,288321,288322,288323,288324,288325,288326,288327,288328,28832961156
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)5288318,288319,288324,288327,2883282473
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS23288307,288308,288309,288310,288311,288312,288313,288314,288315,288316,288317,288318,288319,288320,288321,288322,288323,288324,288325,288326,288327,288328,28832921482
Wurtzite  (*)WurtziteZnS0372



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