Mineral Evolution Database

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

mindat Locality ID: 4539
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4539.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Shullsburg Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, USA": 36
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 36

Number of Child Localities: 36
Child Localities:
Andrews Mine
B And C Mine (Brown And Croft Mine; Brown-Croft Mine)
Bear Hole Mine
Blackstone Mine
Blain And Logan Mine
Calumet Mine (Calumet And Hecla Mine; C&H Mine; Shullsburg Mine; Eagle Picher)
Copeland Mine
Coughlin Mine (Murphy Mine)
Derocher Mine
Eagle-Picher Industries Shullsburg Tailing (Shullsburg Tailings; Eagle Picher Industries; Inc.)
Ernest And Myers Level
Expansion Mine
Galena Level Mine (Butler Mine)
Helena-Roachdale Mine
Hofer Mine (Boyle Mine; Hardy Mine)
Iowa Mine (Imperial; Hoover)
James Mine (Mullen Mine; Doyle-Harty Mine; New Harty Mine)
Little Giant Mine (Drybones Diggings)
Logan Mine
Lucky Hit Mine (New Lucky Hit Mine)
Lyne Mine (Winskell No. 4 Mine)
Maid Of Erin Mine
Milwaukee-Shullsburg Mine (Rowe Mine)
Moore Level (Little Benny Mine; McPhee Level)
Mulcahy Mine (Trewartha Mine)
Mullen Mine
New Harty Mine
New Mulcahy Mine
New Mullen Mine
Nip And Tuck Mine (Giles Mine)
O'Brien Mine
Oakland Level Mine (Brady Mine; McFeeley Level)
Old Mulcahy Mine
Paquette Mine
Silver Plume Mine
Weiskircher Mine

Latitude: 42°34'30"N
Longitude: 90°16'11"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.575,-90.269722222222

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Cobaltite	Diaspore	Gypsum	Marcasite	Melanterite
Millerite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cobaltite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hydrozincite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Millerite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Wurtzite ()*

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

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Cobaltite Diaspore Gypsum Marcasite Melanterite
Millerite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Wurtzite

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	14	288408,288410,288411,288413,288414,288417,288419,288420,288421,288422,288429,288438,288439,288441	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	32	288406,288407,288409,288410,288411,288412,288413,288414,288415,288416,288417,288418,288419,288420,288421,288422,288423,288425,288426,288428,288429,288430,288431,288432,288433,288434,288435,288436,288437,288438,288439,288441	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	0		4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	0		966
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	32	288406,288407,288408,288410,288411,288412,288413,288414,288415,288416,288417,288418,288419,288420,288421,288422,288423,288425,288426,288428,288429,288430,288431,288432,288433,288434,288435,288436,288437,288438,288439,288441	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	19	288406,288408,288409,288410,288411,288413,288414,288416,288417,288419,288420,288421,288422,288425,288428,288429,288433,288435,288438	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	288423	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	288423	6890
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	0		1066
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	18	288408,288409,288410,288411,288413,288414,288415,288417,288419,288420,288421,288422,288423,288425,288429,288435,288438,288441	5674
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	288423	915
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	1	288411	1066
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	288419	1508
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	32	288406,288407,288408,288410,288411,288412,288413,288414,288415,288416,288417,288418,288419,288420,288421,288422,288423,288425,288426,288428,288429,288430,288431,288432,288433,288434,288435,288436,288437,288438,288439,288441	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	31	288406,288407,288410,288411,288412,288413,288414,288415,288416,288417,288418,288419,288420,288421,288422,288423,288425,288426,288428,288429,288430,288431,288432,288433,288434,288435,288436,288437,288438,288439,288441	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	8	288410,288419,288420,288423,288425,288428,288429,288435	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	33	288406,288407,288408,288409,288410,288411,288412,288413,288414,288415,288416,288417,288418,288419,288420,288421,288422,288423,288425,288426,288428,288429,288430,288431,288432,288433,288434,288435,288436,288437,288438,288439,288441	21482
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	0		372

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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