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Locality Name:
Sultan Mountain, Silverton, Animas District, San Juan Co., Colorado, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 380
Youngest recorded age at locality: 13

mindat Locality ID: 204018
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-204018.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sultan Mountain, Silverton, Animas District, San Juan Co., Colorado, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Ajax Mine (Hercules Mine)
Alethea Group
Belcer Mine (Belcher)
Blue Jay Mine
Dora Mine (Little Dora; Hercules; Empire Group)
Empire Group
Hawkeye Mine
Hercules Occurrence
Jennie Parker Mine
King Group (King-United; Mohawk; Fairview; Harmon)
Mineral Creek Mine
North Star Mine (Sultan Mine; North Star-Sultan)
Pittsburg Tunnel
Ricker Group
Senior Warden Mine
Silverheel Occurrence
Sultan Mountain Occurrence
Thunder Tunnel Mine
Unknown Limestone Occurrence [2]
Unknown Zn-Pb-Ag-Au-Cu Occurrence

Latitude: 37°47'43"N
Longitude: 107°40'41"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.795277777778,-107.67805555556

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.

Alunite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore
Digenite	Feldspar	Lillianite	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Covellite ()*	Digenite ()*	Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Hübnerite ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Lillianite ()*
Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pearceite ()*	Plumbojarosite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Sanidine ()*	Siderite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	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 Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Mn O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Cu Fe H K O Pb S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore
Digenite Feldspar Lillianite Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite

29 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
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	26	13	1	196180	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	26	13	0		5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	26	13	1	196170	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	26	13	1	196180	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	26	13	6	196170,196173,196176,196177,196179,196180	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	26	13	2	196179,196180	4165
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	26	13	1	196180	1027
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	26	13	4	196173,196175,196176,196179	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	26	13	7	196170,196173,196175,196176,196177,196179,196180	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	26	13	0		7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	26	13	1	196180	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	26	13	2	196179,196180	14640
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	26	13	3	196175,196179,196184	469
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	26	13	2	196169,196180	784
Lillianite ()*	Lillianite	Pb_3-2xAg_xBi_2+xS₆	26	13	1	196179	128
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	26	13	0		12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	26	13	0		17380
Pearceite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(As,Sb)₂S₇]	26	13	1	196180	249
Plumbojarosite ()*	Alunite	Pb_0.5Fe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	26	13	0		477
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	26	13	6	196170,196173,196175,196177,196179,196180	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	26	13	1	196177	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	26	13	5	196170,196173,196176,196179,196180	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	26	13	4	196169,196173,196179,196180	1711
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	26	13	1	196178	598
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	26	13	2	196169,196180	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	26	13	5	196170,196173,196177,196179,196180	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	26	13	1	196179	3418
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	26	13	1	196177	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	26	13	4	196170,196173,196179,196180	5317

4 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	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
Jen_0001438	16.6	13	16.6-13		age of mineralization		scheelite		Yes	Scheelite			3663	Silverton, Animas District, San Juan Co., Colorado, USA	Silverton	Poulin et al. (2016)	10.3749/canmin.1500023	CM54_1147
Giersdorf_00000596	24	20	22±2	238U-206U			uraninite	K-172	Yes	Uraninite	Uraninite	U	4142	Happy Jack Mine (Blue Dike Mine), White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA	Happy Jack Mine	Miller et al. (1963)	10.1130/0016-7606(1963)74[609:IEOTOO]2.0.CO;2	GSAB74_609	Age given for U238-Pb206 analysis
Giersdorf_00000597	26	22	24±2	235U-207Pb			uraninite	K-172	Yes	Uraninite	Uraninite	U	4142	Happy Jack Mine (Blue Dike Mine), White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA	Happy Jack Mine	Miller et al. (1963)	10.1130/0016-7606(1963)74[609:IEOTOO]2.0.CO;2	GSAB74_609	Age given for U235-Pb207 analysis
Giersdorf_00000598	380	280	330±50	207Pb-206Pb	The Pb207-Pb206 age given for these samples is described as being highly erroneous due to the systematic sensitivity of the analytic methods	low	uraninite	K-172	Yes	Uraninite	Uraninite	U	4142	Happy Jack Mine (Blue Dike Mine), White Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA	Happy Jack Mine	Miller et al. (1963)	10.1130/0016-7606(1963)74[609:IEOTOO]2.0.CO;2	GSAB74_609	Age given for Pb207-Pb206 analysis

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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