Mineral Evolution Database
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Locality Name:
Big Horn Co., Wyoming, USA


mindat Locality ID: 20992
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-20992.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Big Horn Co., Wyoming, USA": 215
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 209

Number of Child Localities: 187
Child Localities:
Al Egbert
Anomaly No. 1 Occurrence
Anomaly No. 6 Occurrence
Asay-Egbert Prospects
Avery Claims
Bald Mountain District
Bald Mountain Monazite Deposit
Bald Mountain Placer Claims
Bear Creek No. 1
Bear Creek No. 2
Beaver Creek
Beaver Creek No. 1 Occurrence
Beaver Creek No. 2 Occurrence
Beaver Hill Mines
Big Coulee
Big Hill Group (MRDS - 10229640)
Big Horn River
Big Horn River Area
Bighorn Bentonite Company Claims
Cave Group
Claim Area (MRDS - 10132711)
Colony Plant Bentonite
Cowley
Crooked Creek Group
Crystal
Dirty Beast Prospect
Dresser Bentonite Mine
Dry Creek Group No. 1
Dry Creek Group No. 2
Dry Creek Group No. 3
Dry Creek No. 1 Occurrence
Dry Creek No. 2 Occurrence
Dry Gulch
East Fork McDermotts Creek Occurrence
Egbert Occurrence
End Of Day & Sun Up No. 1 Claims
End Of Day & Sun Up No. 2 Prospect
End Of Day & Sun Up No. 3 Claims
End Of Day & Sun Up No. 4 Claims
Five Springs Area
Greybull Area No. 1
Greybull Area No. 2
Greybull Area No. 3
Greybull Area No. 4
Greybull Stucco
Gypsum Creek Area
Gypsum Quarry No. 3 (Big Horn Mine)
Gypsum Quarry No. 6 (Georgia Pacific Corp)
Gypsum Quarry No. 7
High Noon Claims
Horse Creek Canyon
Horse Thief Cave
Horseshoe Claims No. 9 & 10
Horseshoe Group
Hyattville Area Occurrence
Jack No. 1 Mining Claim
Jet 8
John Claim
L. E. Collingwood Bentonite Mine & Mill
Lisbon Mines
Little Mountain (MRDS - 10229231)
Little Mountain (MRDS - 10229653)
Little Mountain Mining District
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 1 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 10 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 11 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 12 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 13 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 14 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 15 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 18 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 19 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 2 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 20 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 3 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 4 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 5 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 6 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 7 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 8 Occurrence
Little Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 9 Occurrence
Lovell
Lovell Deposit No. 1
Lovell Deposit No. 2
Lovell Deposit No. 3
Lovell Mine
Lovell Occurrence (Sand Draw; Little Dry Creek)
Lucky Strike Occurrence
Marvel Mine
Midnight
Mike 1-10 Claims
Mike No. 10 & Mickey Nos. 2-10
Modern Mines
Morris Avery Occurrence
North Emblem
North Of Cowley
North-East Of Greybull
Northwest Of Greybull
Old Glory Hole
Paintrock Area
Porter Gulch Area
Potato Ridge Occurrence
Robertson Claim No. 1
Saunders Mine
Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 1 Occurrence
Sheep Mountain Anticline No. 2 Occurrence
Shell Canal
Shell Creek Canyon
Smith Property & Lucky Strike Claim
Smith-Pauleson Occurrence
Snake Mine
Soldier Creek Prospect
Spanish Point Agate Mine
Spence Dome
Stucco Mines
Sunup Group
Super Cub Mine
Sykes Mountain
Tenseep Canyon Occurrence
Three Forks Canyon Area No. 1 Occurrence
Three Forks Canyon Area No. 2 Occurrence
Three Forks Canyon Area No. 3 Occurrence
Three Forks Canyon Area No. 4 Occurrence
Titan Mine
Trapper Creek Mine
Tri-Pacer No. 4
Tri-Pacer No. 5
Unknown Clay - Bentonite (MRDS - 10132742)
Unknown Clay - Bentonite (MRDS - 10181763)
Unknown Clay - Bentonite (MRDS - 10254526)
Unknown Clay - Bentonite Occurrence (MRDS - 10132171)
Unknown Clay - Bentonite Occurrence (MRDS - 10205175)
Unknown Clay - Bentonite Occurrence (MRDS - 10229881)
Unknown Clay - Bentonite Prospect (MRDS - 10181994)
Unknown Clay - Fire (Refractory; MRDS - 10182043)
Unknown Clay Occurrence (MRDS - 10181856)
Unknown Gold Prospect (MRDS - 10132126)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10132200)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10132340)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10157587)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10205173)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10205178)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10205763)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10229234)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10229412)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10229427)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10254806)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10278685)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10279368)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite (MRDS - 10303304)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite Occurrence (MRDS - 10132555)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite Occurrence (MRDS - 10181966)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite Occurrence (MRDS - 10279290)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite Occurrence (MRDS - 10303638)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite Prospect (MRDS - 10205449)
Unknown Gypsum-Anhydrite Prospect (MRDS - 10254394)
Unknown Lead Occurrence (MRDS - 10229254)
Unknown Magnesite Occurrence (MRDS - 10157154)
Unknown Magnesite Occurrence (MRDS - 10303322)
Unknown Pumice Occurrence (MRDS - 10132851)
Unknown Pumice Occurrence (MRDS - 10181392)
Unknown Pumice Occurrence (MRDS - 10254823)
Unknown Silica Occurrence (MRDS - 10181674)
Unknown Silica Occurrence (MRDS - 10279206)
Unknown Silica Prospect (MRDS - 10254302)
Unknown Uranium (MRDS - 10132877)
Unknown Uranium (MRDS - 10181441)
Unknown Uranium (MRDS - 10229721)
Unknown Uranium (MRDS - 10254615)
Unknown Uranium (MRDS - 10278712)
Unknown Uranium (MRDS - 10278987)
Unknown Uranium (MRDS - 10303422)
Unknown Uranium (MRDS - 10303703)
Unknown Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10018705)
Unknown Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10018706)
Unknown Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10018707)
Unknown Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10018936)
Unknown Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10132438)
Unknown Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10157736)
Unknown Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10157806)
Unknown Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10184210)
Unknown Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10229797)
Unknown Uranium Prospect (MRDS - 10181447)
Western Bighorn Group
Whitehead Claims
Wyo-Ben Products
Yellowtail Mine

Latitude: 44°42'51"N
Longitude: 108°4'35"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.714166666667,-108.07638888889

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: C Ca Fe H K Mg Na O P S Si U V 

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ApatiteAragoniteCalciteCorundumFritzscheiteGypsumNonePyriteQuartz

12 IMA Minerals at location:
Aragonite  (*)Boltwoodite  (*)Calcite  (*)Carnotite  (*)Dolomite  (*)
Gypsum  (*)Hematite  (*)Hydroxylapatite  (*)Metatyuyamunite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Tyuyamunite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)03250
Boltwoodite  (*)None(K,Na)(UO2)(SiO3OH)·1.5H2O128991467
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)128991127770
Carnotite  (*)NoneK2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O12899001184
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)212899539895
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O12899546890
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3128998714640
Hydroxylapatite  (*)ApatiteCa5(PO4)3OH1289987367
Metatyuyamunite  (*)FritzscheiteCa(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O1289911129
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2128998739462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO23289904,289986,28999861156
Tyuyamunite  (*)NoneCa(UO2)2(VO4)2·5-8H2O5289900,289911,289920,289923,290050628



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