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Locality Name:
Summit District, Yakima Co., Washington, USA


mindat Locality ID: 210799
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-210799.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Summit District, Yakima Co., Washington, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Black Hawk Claim
Comstock Claim
Crown Point Claim
Damfino Claim
Dry Springs Claim
Elizabeth Gold Hill Claim
Elizabeth Placer
Eva Claim
Fife Claim (Bear Gap Claim; Pickhandle Claim; Manitau Claim; Blue Bell Claim; Cold Spring Claim; Silver Reef Claim)
Gold Hill Claim (Eureka Claim; Climax Claim; Lake Paragon Claim; Boston Claim)
Gold Links Claim
Gold Links Placer
Lolette Claim
Morse Creek

Latitude: 46°55'51"N
Longitude: 121°27'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.930833333333,-121.45

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 Au Cu Fe O S Sb Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNoneQuartzTetrahedrite

3 IMA Minerals at location:
Freibergite  (*)Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Freibergite  (*)TetrahedriteAg6[Cu4Fe2]Sb4S121286456663
Gold  (*)CopperAu6286449,286451,286452,286454,286457,28645830554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22286451,28645261156



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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