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Locality Name:
Covada, Covada District (Enterprise District), Colville Indian Reservation, Ferry Co., Washington, USA


mindat Locality ID: 20781
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-20781.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Covada, Covada District (Enterprise District), Colville Indian Reservation, Ferry Co., Washington, USA": 27
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 26

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Black Tail Claim
Butterfly Claim
Colorado Group
Covada-Kewa Road
Dead Shot Claim
Discovery Claim
Drummond Claim
Etta Claim
Kohler Claim
Longstreet Mine
Old Nell Mine
Perry Claim
Robert E. Lee Mine
Rosario Claim
Silver Crown Mine
Silver Leaf Mine
Sunflower Claim (Java Claim)

Latitude: 48°15'6"N
Longitude: 118°13'15"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.251666666667,-118.22083333333
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 C Ca Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteAragoniteArsenicArsenoliteArsenopyriteChalcopyriteClayCopperEnargiteKaolinite
MalachiteMolybdeniteNoneNot in a structural groupOwyheeitePyritePyrochloreQuartzRocksaltScheelite
SphaleriteStibniteTetrahedriteWurtzite

26 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Antimony  (*)Aragonite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Azurite  (*)
Cervantite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Enargite  (*)Galena  (*)Jamesonite  (*)
Kaolinite  (*)Malachite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Owyheeite  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)Senarmontite  (*)Silver  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)Stibiconite  (*)Stibnite  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Valentinite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S12840512793
Antimony  (*)ArsenicSb1284052363
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)12840453250
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS12840549052
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)212840505509
Cervantite  (*)NoneSb3+Sb5+O41284057352
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS24284051,284054,284057,28405827198
Enargite  (*)Enargite WurtziteCu3AsS41284057910
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS18284032,284033,284035,284036,284037,284038,284039,284040,284042,284043,284044,284046,284047,284048,284049,284051,284054,28405724243
Jamesonite  (*)NonePb4FeSb6S141284057784
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)412840515591
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2128405012537
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS212840555800
Owyheeite  (*)OwyheeiteAg3Pb10Sb11S28128405789
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS312840571425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS212284033,284046,284047,284048,284049,284050,284051,284054,284055,284056,284057,28405839462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO214284032,284033,284046,284047,284048,284049,284050,284051,284052,284053,284055,284056,284057,28405861156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)12840574894
Senarmontite  (*)ArsenoliteSb2O31284057179
Silver  (*)CopperAg12840575186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS4284048,284051,284054,28405721482
Stibiconite  (*)PyrochloreSb3+Sb5+2O6(OH)1284057446
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S313284035,284036,284037,284038,284039,284040,284041,284042,284043,284044,284051,284054,2840573418
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S1312840551803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S135284050,284051,284054,284055,2840575317
Valentinite  (*)NoneSb2O31284057369


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
SampleSource LocalityReference URL
R070543Covada, Covada District (Enterprise District), Colville Indian Reservation, Ferry Co., Washington, USAhttps://rruff.info/R070543

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