Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Sapphire Mountains Area, Granite Co., Montana, USA

mindat Locality ID: 186106
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-186106.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sapphire Mountains Area, Granite Co., Montana, USA": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 25

Number of Child Localities: 25
Child Localities:
Bee Bee No. 1 Occurrence
Big Springs Creek Placer
Broken Bottle Occurrence (Congdon Mine)
Coffee Pot Placer Claim
Cub Placer Claim
Elkhorn Placer Claim
Ella (Rock Creek Property; McDonald)
Fred Placer Claim
Gold Prince (Nellie)
Kent & Condon Mine
Little Bill Placer Claim
Little Jim Placer Claim
Lucky Placer Claim
Moose Placer Claim
Moose Trail
Peanuts Placer Claim
Quartz Creek Deposit
Ranger Placer Claim
Rocky Creek Mines
Sand Basin Occurrence
Stephens Placer
The Lucky Strike (Bull Moose)
Titanium Placers (MRDS - 10135455)
Unidentified Occurrence (MRDS - 10013212)
Wanda Placer Claim

Latitude: 46°11'59"N
Longitude: 113°35'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.199722222222,-113.59638888889

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.

Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Fluorite	None	Quartz

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 Ca Ce Fe Nb O Si Ta Th Ti U Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Columbite Copper Corundum Fluorite None Quartz

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Corundum ()*	Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Quartz ()*
Thorianite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	228862	1797
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	1	228865	414
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	228846,228847,228864,228870	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	228846	14640
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	228846	61156
Thorianite ()*	Fluorite	ThO₂	1	228865	236

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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