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Locality Name:
Paquin District, Ouray Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 156173
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-156173.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Paquin District, Ouray Co., Colorado, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Army And Navy Mine
Bachelor Group
Bachelor Mine
Bankers And Exchange Mine
Black Girl Mine
Bona Hensel Mine
Calliope Mine
Dexter Creek
El Mahdi (Almadi)
Iowa Chief Mine
Leadville Mine
Little Eva Mine
Native Silver Mine
News Boy
Portland Mine
Senorita Mine
Slide Mine
Sunbeam Mine

Latitude: 38°3'31"N
Longitude: 107°39'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.058611111111,-107.66361111111

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.

Acanthite	Allargentum	Allophane	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay
Copper	Covellite	Gypsum	Linarite	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite
Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Allargentum ()*	Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*
Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bindheimite ()*	Brochantite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dyscrasite ()*	Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*
Langite ()*	Linarite ()*	Malachite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pearceite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Rosasite ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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 As Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mn Mo O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allargentum Allophane Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay
Copper Covellite Gypsum Linarite Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite
Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

40 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	194283	2793
Allargentum ()*	Allargentum	Ag_1-xSb_x (x ≈ 0.09-0.16)	1	194288	69
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	194300	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	2	194297,194299	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	194300	3250
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	2	194286,194299	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	4	194286,194297,194299,194300	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	8	194282,194284,194285,194286,194287,194297,194299,194300	11547
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	1	194286	450
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	2	194286,194299	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6	194284,194286,194288,194290,194297,194299	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	194299,194300	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	194297,194299	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	194288,194297,194299	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	194299	3531
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	194297,194299	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	194286	2970
Dyscrasite ()*	Allargentum	Ag_3+xSb_1-x (x ≈ 0.2)	1	194288	180
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	194284,194288,194297,194299	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	194286,194300	6890
Langite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O	1	194286	593
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	2	194286,194299	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4	194286,194297,194299,194300	12537
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	2	194286,194299	1107
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	194284,194288,194297	17380
Pearceite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(As,Sb)₂S₇]	3	194283,194284,194297	249
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	3	194288,194297,194299	716
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	2	194283,194284	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	194284,194288,194297,194298,194299	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	194286	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	194282,194284,194286,194288,194290,194297,194299,194300	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	2	194284,194288	1711
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	194286,194299,194300	454
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	194286	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	4	194283,194286,194288,194290	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	194286	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	194284,194288,194297,194299	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	1	194288	586
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	6	194283,194284,194286,194288,194297,194299	5317
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	3	194285,194286,194300	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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