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Locality Name:
Olinghouse District (White Horse District), Pah Rah Range (Pah Rah Mts), Washoe Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 14195
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-14195.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Olinghouse District (White Horse District), Pah Rah Range (Pah Rah Mts), Washoe Co., Nevada, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Alta Gold Mine
Babe Mine
Big Mouth Canyon Area
Buster Mine
Derby Mine (Wadsworth Mine)
Frank Free Canyon (Lower Olinghouse Placer)
Green Hill
Gus Schave Property
Keystone Nevada Mine Workings
Olinghouse (McClanesburg)
Olinghouse Canyon
Painted Rock Interchange (Painter Rock Interchange)
Secret Canyon Area
Tiger Canyon

Latitude: 39°39'46"N
Longitude: 119°24'53"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.662777777778,-119.41472222222

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.

Alunite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar
Gypsum	Malachite	Mordenite	Natrolite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite
Sphalerite	Tetradymite

Albite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Clinozoisite ()*	Coloradoite ()*	Copper ()*
Cuprite ()*	Epidote ()*	Epistilbite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Hessite ()*	Jarosite ()*
Laumontite ()*	Malachite ()*	Nitratine ()*	Petzite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rucklidgeite ()*	Scheelite ()*	Scolecite ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tenorite ()*

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 Al Au Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K N Na O Pb S Si Te W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Bi Ca H Hg Na O Pb S Si Te Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Diaspore Epidote Feldspar
Gypsum Malachite Mordenite Natrolite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite
Sphalerite Tetradymite

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	0		8803
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	241170	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	241178	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	241178	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	9	241170,241174,241178,241179,241180,241181,241182,241183,241184	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	6	241178,241179,241180,241181,241182,241190	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	0		2600
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	241170,241178	1025
Coloradoite ()*	Sphalerite	HgTe	2	241178,241183	169
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	241187	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	241187	2970
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	241170	8173
Epistilbite ()*	Mordenite	Ca₃[Si₁₈Al₆O₄₈]·16H₂O	0		138
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	241170,241178	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	241178	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	11	241170,241173,241175,241177,241178,241179,241180,241181,241182,241184,241190	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	241177	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	241174	14640
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	1	241178	804
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	241174	2228
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	2	241170,241187	1271
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	241187	12537
Nitratine ()*	Calcite	Na(NO₃)	1	241177	91
Petzite ()*	None	Ag₃AuTe₂	2	241178,241183	409
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	9	241174,241178,241179,241180,241181,241182,241184,241188,241190	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	12	241170,241174,241175,241177,241179,241180,241181,241182,241183,241184,241188,241190	61156
Rucklidgeite ()*	Tetradymite	PbBi₂Te₄	0		64
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	3	241170,241176,241178	4894
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	0		390
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	4	241179,241180,241181,241182	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	0		21482
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	241187	1101

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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