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Locality Name:
Moose Creek Mining District, Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA


mindat Locality ID: 186271
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-186271.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Moose Creek Mining District, Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Brown Claim Group
Copper Hill Mine
Day And Harvey Mine
Eager Mining Group
Elkhorn-Buckhorn Claims
Gold Dust Claim
Lower Moose Creek Placer
Mary Ann Property
Silver Glance
Sunset Claim
Tucker Creek Deposits (Mount Humbug)
Upper Moose Creek Placer
Van Dorstan Claims (Mohawk; Buckhorn)
Wildcat Claim

Latitude: 45°45'37"N
Longitude: 112°36'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.760277777778,-112.60833333333

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Au C Ca Cl Mg O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteCopperNoneQuartzRocksalt

6 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Chlorargyrite  (*)Dolomite  (*)Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)
Silver  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S12339982793
Chlorargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgCl12339981382
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)26233996,233998,234003,234005,234008,2340099895
Gold  (*)CopperAu3233998,234002,23400730554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2123399861156
Silver  (*)CopperAg12340015186



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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