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Locality Name:
McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1693.8
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1668.9

mindat Locality ID: 133226
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-133226.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Atomic Mountain Claim (Atomic Mountain; Starbuck; General Ike; Thorium Mountain Claims; Nightengale; Mystery; Lucky Find)
Darby Extension Occurrence (Derby Extension)
Hidden Valley Claims (Hidden Valley 4 Claim; Hidden Valley 1 Claim)
Little Maud Claim
Lucky Find Claim (Lucky Strike)
Midnite Lode Occurrence
Pennie Poker Occurrence (Penny Poker)
Sunset Lode Occurrence
Thorite Mother Lode Occurrence
Twenty Grand Claim
Valley View Claim

Latitude: 38°12'40"N
Longitude: 105°19'43"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.211111111111,-105.32861111111

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	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Feldspar	Fluorite
None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Zircon

Albite ()*	Arfvedsonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calciosamarskite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Microcline ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
Siderite ()*	Thorite ()*

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 Au Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Na Nb O Pb S Si Ta Th Ti Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Fe H Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Columbite Copper Corundum Diaspore Feldspar Fluorite
None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1693.8	1668.9	0		8803
Arfvedsonite ()*	Amphibole	NaNa₂(Fe²⁺₄Fe³⁺)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1693.8	1668.9	0		295
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1693.8	1668.9	11	187401,187402,187403,187404,187405,187406,187407,187408,187409,187410,187411	11547
Calciosamarskite ()*	Columbite	(Ca,Fe,Y)(Nb,Ta,Ti)O₄			1	187403	11
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			2	187401,187402	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			2	187402,187405	27198
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1693.8	1668.9	7	187401,187403,187404,187406,187408,187410,187411	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1693.8	1668.9	9	187401,187402,187403,187404,187406,187407,187408,187410,187411	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	187401	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			1	187401	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			2	187401,187407	14640
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	187401	4924
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1693.8	1668.9	8	187401,187402,187403,187404,187406,187408,187410,187411	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1693.8	1668.9	10	187401,187402,187403,187404,187405,187406,187407,187408,187410,187411	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			1	187401	5614
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)			3	187401,187402,187407	6417
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1693.8	1668.9	11	187401,187402,187403,187404,187405,187406,187407,187408,187409,187410,187411	1006

12 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Reference	Reference ID
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01615_206_238	1685.2	1685.2	1685.2	206_238	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01615_207_206	1693	1693	1693	207_206	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01615_207_235	1688.7	1688.7	1688.7	207_235	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01616_206_238	1680.8	1680.8	1680.8	206_238	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01616_207_206	1693.8	1693.8	1693.8	207_206	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01616_207_235	1686.5	1686.5	1686.5	207_235	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01617_206_238	1675.4	1675.4	1675.4	206_238	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01617_207_206	1693	1693	1693	207_206	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01617_207_235	1683.2	1683.2	1683.2	207_235	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01618_206_238	1668.9	1668.9	1668.9	206_238	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01618_207_206	1687.5	1687.5	1687.5	207_206	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-01618_207_235	1677.1	1677.1	1677.1	207_235	zircon	Zircon	112293	Twenty Grand Claim, McKinley Mountain Area, Wet Mountains Area, Custer Co., Colorado, USA	USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb

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