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Locality Name:
Poison Mountain Cu-Au-Mo Deposit, Lillooet Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

Oldest recorded age at locality: 58
Youngest recorded age at locality: 55

mindat Locality ID: 206458
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-206458.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Poison Mountain Cu-Au-Mo Deposit, Lillooet Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 51°8'0"N
Longitude: 122°36'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 51.133333333333,-122.61416666667

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	Alunite	Amphibole	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore
Digenite	Epidote	Gypsum	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*
Digenite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Hematite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tenorite ()*	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 C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Alunite Amphibole Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore
Digenite Epidote Gypsum Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Rocksalt
Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite

25 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	58	55	2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	58	55	3419
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	58	55	1588
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	58	55	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	58	55	5516
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	58	55	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	58	55	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	58	55	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	58	55	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	58	55	2970
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	58	55	1027
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	58	55	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	58	55	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	58	55	7437
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	58	55	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	58	55	14640
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	58	55	2228
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	58	55	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	58	55	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	58	55	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	58	55	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	58	55	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	58	55	21482
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	58	55	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	58	55	5317

1 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	Run 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
	PorphCu-00481	58	55	58–55									Actinolite, Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Covellite, Epidote, Galena, Hematite, Jarosite, Magnetite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Sphalerite	Cu	206458	Poison Mountain Cu-Au-Mo Deposit, Lillooet Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada	Poison Mountain	Singer et al. (2008)		USGSOFR2008_1155

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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