Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Thompson River Mining District, Sanders Co., Montana, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1400
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1400

mindat Locality ID: 186264
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-186264.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Thompson River Mining District, Sanders Co., Montana, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Copper King Mine (Mascot Mines)
Raven Mine (Copper Mask Mine)
Silver King Mine (Belle Stowe Mine)
Thompson Falls

Latitude: 47°36'58"N
Longitude: 115°11'22"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.616111111111,-115.18944444444

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	Allophane	Alunite	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Covellite	Diaspore
Enargite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Covellite ()*	Enargite ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Hinsdalite ()*	Malachite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tenorite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Wittichenite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Alunite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Chalcopyrite Copper Covellite Diaspore
Enargite Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

23 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1400	1400	2	233576,233580	2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			1	233577	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1400	1400	1	233580	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1400	1400	4	233576,233577,233578,233580	5516
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1400	1400	1	233580	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1400	1400	2	233577,233580	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1400	1400	4	233576,233577,233578,233580	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O			2	233576,233577	3531
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS			2	233576,233577	4165
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄			2	233576,233577	910
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1400	1400	1	233580	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1400	1400	3	233577,233578,233580	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1400	1400	1	233580	7437
Hinsdalite ()*	Alunite	PbAl₃(SO₄)(PO₄)(OH)₆	1400	1400	1	233580	82
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1400	1400	3	233576,233577,233580	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			2	233576,233577	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1400	1400	1	233580	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			2	233576,233577	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1400	1400	1	233580	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			1	233578	21482
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO			2	233576,233577	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			3	233576,233577,233578	5317
Wittichenite ()*	None	Cu₃BiS₃			1	233577	297

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
	sedcu-00647	1400	1400	Middle Proterozoic (Helikian)										Cu	36226	Daisy Creek Prospect, Thompson Falls, Thompson River Mining District, Sanders Co., Montana, USA	Daisy Creek	Cox et al. (2003)		USGSOFR03_107

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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