Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Gold Hill Cumberland Pass, Quartz Creek District, Gunnison Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 113867
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-113867.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gold Hill Cumberland Pass, Quartz Creek District, Gunnison Co., Colorado, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Bon Ton
Hubnerite Lode
Ida May Mine
Mammoth Mine

Latitude: 38°41'27"N
Longitude: 106°29'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.690833333333,-106.48722222222

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	Chalcopyrite	Columbite	Copper	Covellite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Bornite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*
Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hübnerite ()*	Ilsemannite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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: Ag Au C Cu Fe H Mn Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Chalcopyrite Columbite Copper Covellite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	189806,189807	5516
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	189807	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	189806	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	189805,189806,189807	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	189806,189807	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	189807	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	189805,189806,189807	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	189805,189806	30554
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	2	189806,189807	469
Ilsemannite ()*	None	Mo₃O₈·nH₂O (?)	1	189807	123
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	4	189805,189806,189807,189808	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	189805,189806,189807,189808	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	189805,189806,189807,189808	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	189806	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	189806,189807	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	189806,189807	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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