Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Chicago Creek, Clear Creek Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 134706
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-134706.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Chicago Creek, Clear Creek Co., Colorado, USA": 61
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 60

Number of Child Localities: 60
Child Localities:
Algot (Bobtail; Grace M.)
American Boy
American Queen
Anglo American
Argentite
Big Flat
Big Forty
Black Lion
Blackstone
Brunswick
Burns Moore
C. Tyrol
Cape Brenton
Cascade
Charter Oak Prospect (Tyone)
Chemung County
Commonwealth Tunnel
Ella McKenney
Emma Jane
Evergreen
Germantown
Gold Flint
Golden Light Tunnel
Herbert
Indigo B
Katie Emmett - Upper
King Williams
Little Florence
Lizzie S
Louise
Lucky Guess
M & M Shaft
M & M Tunnel (Sweet Marie)
Mable
Magna
Marble
Mary Foster
Maximillian
Mohawk
New York
Newton
Pacific; Blackstone; Dont; Arthur; King Solomon; I
Q Shaft
Rachel
Rocky & Stoney
S Shaft
Shakespeare
Silver Cliff
Silver Horn
South American
Stover
Sweden
Thirty Second
Tyrone Tunnel - Lower
Union
Unknown Gold - Silver Occurrence (MRDS - 10017208)
Unknown Silver - Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10018366)
Viking
West Griffith Mine
Wire Gold

Latitude: 39°42'53"N
Longitude: 105°36'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.714722222222,-105.60722222222

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.

Chalcopyrite	Copper	Covellite	Fluorite	Marcasite	None	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Bromargyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Marcasite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Torbernite ()*	Uraninite ()*

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 As Au Br Cu Fe H O P Pb S Sb Si U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Copper Covellite Fluorite Marcasite None Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	1	185854	227
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	185840,185846,185851,185882	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	185852	4165
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	22	185840,185841,185842,185843,185846,185848,185849,185851,185852,185853,185857,185860,185864,185865,185871,185876,185878,185882,185886,185887,185888,185892	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	8	185849,185851,185852,185866,185878,185879,185893,185894	30554
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	3	185851,185852,185876	5674
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	2	185851,185852	716
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	25	185838,185840,185841,185842,185843,185846,185848,185849,185851,185852,185853,185855,185857,185860,185863,185864,185865,185871,185876,185882,185886,185887,185888,185892,185895	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	25	185838,185840,185841,185842,185843,185846,185848,185849,185851,185852,185853,185855,185857,185860,185863,185864,185865,185871,185876,185882,185886,185887,185888,185892,185895	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	6	185849,185866,185878,185879,185893,185894	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	22	185840,185841,185842,185843,185846,185848,185849,185851,185852,185853,185857,185860,185864,185865,185871,185876,185878,185882,185886,185887,185888,185892	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	185851	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	3	185843,185852,185886	5317
Torbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O	1	185851	1059
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	2	185851,185852	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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