Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Silver Mountain District, Alpine Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 189155
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-189155.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Silver Mountain District, Alpine Co., California, USA": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 21

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Raymond Peak
Silver Mountain

Latitude: 38°36'31"N
Longitude: 119°47'41"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.608611111111,-119.79472222222

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	Arsenolite	Baryte	Calcite	Copper	Enargite	None	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Acanthite ()*	Arsenolite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Enargite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Kalinite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Proustite ()*
Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stibnite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Au Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenolite Baryte Calcite Copper Enargite None Polybasite Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

17 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	2	150639,150640	2793
Arsenolite ()*	Arsenolite	As₂O₃	1	150639	231
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	150639	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	150644	27770
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	150639	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	150640	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	10	150631,150636,150637,150639,150641,150642,150643,150645,150648,150650	30554
Kalinite ()*	None	KAl(SO₄)₂·11H₂O	1	150649	54
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	1	150644	716
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	2	150639,150640	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	2	150639,150640	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	150634,150637,150640	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	11	150630,150631,150634,150636,150637,150640,150641,150643,150645,150648,150650	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	150639	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	0		21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	2	150639,150640	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	150639	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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