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Locality Name:
Hyder District, Prince Of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, USA

mindat Locality ID: 203114
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-203114.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hyder District, Prince Of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, USA": 88
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 87

Number of Child Localities: 87
Child Localities:
Alaska-Premier Prospect
Alaska-Premier Prospect (near Skookum Creek)
Alpine Prospect
Ambrose Prospect
Bishop Prospect
Blasher; Lone Star Group Prospect
Bluebird Occurrence
Butte; Brigadier; Hyder Butte Prospect
Cantu Mine
Casey Glacier Sphalerite Occurrence
Cathedral Prospect
Charles; Nelson And Pitcher Occurrence
Chickamin Prospect
Commonwealth Prospect
Crest Prospect
Cripple Creek Prospect
Dog Hole Prospect
Double Anchor; Alaska State Mines Extension Prospect
Dugas; Stampede; Blasher Extension Prospect
Edelweiss; Marmot Group Prospect
Engineer Prospect
Evening Star; Morning Star Prospect
Ferro Prospect
Fish Creek; Olympia Extension; Last Chance; Single Rose; Mountain View; Summit; Climax Mine
Fish Creek; Olympia; Starboard; Nevada Mine
Galena; Marmot Group Prospect
Glacier; Banded Mountain Prospect
Goat; Cub Prospect
Gold Cliff Premier Prospect
Greenpoint Prospect
Heckla; Greenpoint Prospect
Hobo; Swede Prospect
Homestake Mine
Howard; Helen Prospect
Hummel Canyon Prospect
Hummel Prospect
Hyder Mica; Last Chance; Nakat Mica; Nakat Feldspar; Pegmatite Mica; Pearson; Mica City; Mrs. Mack Prospects
Hyder Skookum Prospect
Ibex Prospect
Ibex Saddle Prospect
Iron Cap Prospect (ARDF - BC045)
Iron No. 1-4; Shaft Creek Copper Prospects
J And L Prospect
Joker Occurrence
Jumbo Occurrence (near Texas Creek)
Juneau Occurrence
Keno Prospect
Lake Prospect
Last Shot Prospect
Liberty Occurrence
Lower Daly-Alaska; Iron; Elevenmile Mine
Lucky Boy Extension; Bear; Adenac Prospect
Marietta; Pecos; Solo Pecos Mine
Marmot Lower Basin Prospect
Marmot Upper Basin Prospect
Martha Lee Occurrence
Monarch Prospect
Morning; Lakeside; Lone Star Group Prospect
Mountain View: Fish Creek Nos. 1; 2 And 3; Skookum; Gray Copper; Ruby Silver Mine
Ninety-six; Gold Eagle Prospect
North Star; Bevacque; Bervaqua Occurrence
Nothiger; Standard Prospect
Portland Prospect
Raygold Occurrence
Riverside; Riverview; Lindeborg Mine
Ronan Copper Prospect
Ronan Mine
Silver Bar; McVey Occurrence
Silver Bell Occurrence
Silver Coin Occurrence
Silver King Prospect
Silver Star Prospect
Sixmile Prospect
Stoner-Clegg-O'Rourke Prospect
Stoner; Stoner Gold And Silver Mining Corporation Prospect
Sunset Prospect
Swennings Greenpoint Occurrence
Texas Creek Comstock; Hyder Lead; Texas Comstock; Joe Joe; Fortuna; Alaska-Comstock; Jackson-Hummel Prospect
Texas Discovery Occurrence
Titan; Titan Salmon River Syndicate Prospect
Top Prospect
Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - BC016)
Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - BC081)
Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - KC015; West Of Upper Davis River)
Upper Daly-Alaska; Hoosier; Bertha; Western Mine
Victoria Prospect
Virginia Prospect

Latitude: 56°0'36"N
Longitude: 130°10'41"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 56.01,-130.17805555556

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.

Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Cubanite	Digenite
Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Digenite ()*
Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
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 Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite Cubanite Digenite
Malachite Marcasite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2	132829,132858	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	3	132822,132858,132864	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	13	132799,132822,132823,132830,132836,132839,132840,132849,132865,132870,132871,132879,132884	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	132858	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	6	132807,132832,132856,132858,132867,132870	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	20	132807,132808,132824,132826,132827,132828,132830,132836,132839,132842,132849,132851,132854,132858,132864,132873,132874,132877,132884,132886	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	59	132799,132803,132804,132805,132807,132808,132809,132810,132811,132812,132813,132814,132816,132817,132819,132822,132823,132824,132825,132826,132827,132828,132829,132830,132831,132833,132834,132836,132837,132839,132840,132843,132844,132845,132846,132847,132849,132850,132853,132854,132856,132858,132859,132862,132864,132865,132867,132868,132869,132870,132872,132873,132877,132878,132879,132881,132883,132884,132886	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	132829,132858	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	132858	802
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	1	132829	1027
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	4	132847,132849,132858,132871	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	69	132799,132803,132804,132805,132806,132807,132808,132809,132810,132811,132813,132814,132815,132816,132817,132818,132819,132820,132822,132823,132824,132825,132827,132828,132829,132830,132831,132832,132833,132834,132837,132838,132840,132843,132844,132845,132846,132847,132848,132849,132850,132851,132853,132854,132856,132857,132858,132859,132860,132861,132862,132864,132865,132866,132867,132868,132869,132870,132871,132872,132873,132874,132875,132876,132877,132878,132879,132884,132886	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	132812,132851,132858,132872	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	132858	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	132858	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4	132817,132829,132858,132869	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	132858	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	12	132805,132812,132824,132825,132828,132829,132833,132853,132854,132858,132876,132877	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	132835,132858	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	66	132799,132803,132804,132805,132806,132807,132808,132809,132810,132811,132813,132814,132815,132816,132817,132818,132819,132822,132823,132824,132825,132827,132828,132829,132830,132831,132832,132833,132834,132836,132837,132838,132842,132843,132844,132845,132846,132847,132849,132850,132853,132854,132856,132857,132858,132860,132861,132862,132864,132866,132867,132868,132869,132870,132871,132872,132873,132874,132875,132877,132878,132879,132880,132883,132884,132886	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	33	132799,132803,132804,132809,132811,132812,132814,132818,132822,132823,132825,132826,132827,132829,132830,132836,132839,132840,132847,132849,132850,132858,132864,132865,132871,132873,132874,132877,132878,132881,132883,132884,132886	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	78	132799,132800,132803,132804,132805,132806,132807,132808,132809,132810,132811,132812,132813,132814,132815,132816,132817,132818,132819,132820,132822,132823,132824,132825,132826,132827,132828,132829,132830,132831,132832,132833,132834,132835,132836,132837,132838,132839,132840,132842,132843,132844,132845,132846,132847,132848,132849,132850,132851,132853,132854,132856,132857,132858,132859,132860,132861,132862,132864,132865,132866,132867,132868,132869,132870,132871,132872,132874,132875,132876,132877,132878,132879,132880,132881,132884,132885,132886	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	12	132800,132805,132806,132819,132822,132823,132847,132850,132856,132858,132864,132866	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2	132849,132858	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	49	132799,132804,132807,132808,132809,132810,132812,132814,132815,132816,132817,132822,132823,132824,132827,132829,132830,132831,132832,132833,132834,132837,132838,132839,132840,132843,132845,132847,132849,132850,132853,132856,132858,132859,132864,132865,132866,132868,132870,132871,132872,132873,132874,132877,132879,132880,132884,132885,132886	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	25	132799,132807,132811,132814,132822,132823,132827,132831,132834,132837,132845,132847,132849,132856,132859,132864,132866,132868,132870,132873,132874,132877,132880,132884,132886	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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