Mineral Evolution Database

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

Oldest recorded age at locality: 63
Youngest recorded age at locality: 50

mindat Locality ID: 186252
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-186252.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sapphire Mountains Area, Ravalli Co., Montana, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 23
Child Localities:
Ambrose Creek
Ambrose Creek Pumice Deposit
Claremont Mine
Crystal Mountain Fluorspar Mine (Lumberjack Outcrops; Crystal Mountain Mine Retirement Group)
Eagle Rock Mining Company (Eagle Rock Group)
Ellade Prospect
Gird's Creek Vermiculite Occurrence (Skalkaho Vermiculite Deposit)
Green Goose And Sunset Prospect
Hamilton Vermiculite Deposit
Iron Cap Mine
Lumberjack Group (Crystal Mountain Florite; Crystal Mountain Fluorite)
Miller Mine
Molly 1; 2; 3; 4 And 5 Mine
New Discovery Occurrence
Pine Tree Occurrence
Retirement Claims (Crystal Mountain Florite; Crystal Mountain Fluorite)
Sleeping Child A Occurrence
Slocum Gulch Barite Deposit
Stevensville Barite Deposit
Unnamed Barium-Barite Location (MRDS - 10246100)
Unnamed Barium-Barite Location (MRDS - 10294963)
Unnamed Molybdenum Location (MRDS - 10294918)
Unnamed Vermiculite Location (MRDS - 10149023)

Latitude: 46°17'31"N
Longitude: 113°54'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.291944444444,-113.90194444444

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.

Apatite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Fluorite	Malachite	Mica	None	Quartz	Thortveitite
Titanite

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 Ba C Ca Cu F H K O P S Sc Si Th Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Baryte Calcite Clay Fluorite Malachite Mica None Quartz Thortveitite
Titanite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Quartz ()*	Thorianite ()*	Thortveitite ()*	Titanite ()*

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
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			2	233343,233344	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	233328	27770
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F			1	233329	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			1	233329	9617
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			1	233328	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			1	233329	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	63	50	4	233326,233329,233335,233342	61156
Thorianite ()*	Fluorite	ThO₂			1	233329	236
Thortveitite ()*	Thortveitite	Sc₂Si₂O₇			1	233329	54
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O			1	233329	4899

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	NAVDAT-76279	63	50	56+7/-6					76279						159741	Ambrose Creek, Sapphire Mountains Area, Ravalli Co., Montana, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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