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Locality Name:
Delamar District, Lincoln Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 19818
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19818.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Delamar District, Lincoln Co., Nevada, USA": 19
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
April Fool Mine (Swifter Mine)
Culverwell Mine
Delamar Mill Tailings Pile
Delamar Mine
Delamar Zinc Mine
Easter Mine
Flagstaff Mine
Jumbo Mine (Horn Mine)
Little Emma Mine
Magnolia Mine
Manganese Prospects
Nevada Vein
Oso Mine
Peggy Lee Prospect
Unnamed Prospect

Latitude: 37°27'27"N
Longitude: 114°46'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.4575,-114.77472222222

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	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Mohite	None	Not in a structural group
Pavonite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Cervelleite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Cupropavonite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Hessite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Mohite ()*
Montbrayite ()*	Naumannite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tellurium ()*	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 As Au Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cu Fe O P Pb S Sb Se Si Sn Te Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Mohite None Not in a structural group
Pavonite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

24 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	238522,238523	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	238515	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	238513	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	238525	4979
Cervelleite ()*	None	Ag₄TeS	1	238514	42
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	238515	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	238515	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	3	238523,238524,238528	1382
Cupropavonite ()*	Pavonite	Cu_0.9Ag_0.5Pb_0.6Bi_2.5S₅	1	238512	18
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	238523	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	238513,238518,238523,238525	30554
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	1	238514	804
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	238514	5433
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1	238525	1107
Mohite ()*	Mohite	Cu₂SnS₃	1	238512	4
Montbrayite ()*	None	(Au,Ag,Sb,Bi,Pb)₂₃(Te,Sb,Bi,Pb)₃₈	1	238512	19
Naumannite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ag₂Se	1	238514	192
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	238515,238522,238523	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	238525	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	238512,238513,238514,238515,238521,238522,238523,238525	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	238514	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	238523	21482
Tellurium ()*	None	Te	1	238514	190
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	238515,238523	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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