Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Sixes River District, Coos Co., Oregon, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 165
Youngest recorded age at locality: 163

mindat Locality ID: 213446
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-213446.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sixes River District, Coos Co., Oregon, USA": 32
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 31

Number of Child Localities: 29
Child Localities:
Anaconda Claim
Bolivar (Thompson)
Coos Copper Occurrence
Copper King Occurrence
Divelbiss (Coarse Gold)
Fitzgerald Occurrence
Fuller Quicksilver Occurrence (Thompson Mine; Bolivar Mine; Bolivar Mining Company)
Gold Back Placer (Fuller Placer)
Gold Placer (MRDS - 10052553)
High Foggy Pit And Plant
Independence Mine
Johnson Creek Placers
Jupiter Group (Little Jupiter)
Last Chance (Part Of The Independence Group)
Leep Occurrence (Iron Mtn. Manganese)
Litter Jupiter
Little Lode Occurrence
Nicoli
Nugget Placer Claim
Old Gold Lode Claim
Redbird & Scorpion Occurrence
Reyno Claim
Roberts Group
Rock Creek Claims
Rock Creek No. 1 Prospect (Black Bird Chrome)
Rocky Bar Lode Occurrence
Salmon Mountain Mine
Snowbird
White Rock (Chrome Float Group)

Latitude: 42°44'21"N
Longitude: 124°3'56"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.739166666667,-124.06555555556

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.

Allophane	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Malachite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite

Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chromite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stibnite ()*	Tenorite ()*

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: Al Au Ba C Ca Cr Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Malachite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite

17 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
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	256649	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄			1	256649	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	256649	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			1	256649	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			6	256649,256651,256652,256661,256663,256672	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	165	163	3	256658,256664,256679	3902
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O			1	256649	3531
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O			1	256649	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	256652	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	165	163	3	256658,256659,256677	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			2	256649,256651	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			4	256661,256663,256665,256668	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			1	256652	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			3	256649,256651,256663	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			1	256652	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃			1	256672	3418
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO			1	256649	1101

2 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
	podchrome-00406	165	163	Middle Jurassic (164±1 Ma U-Pb zircon in plagiogranite)										Cr	149588	Independence Mine, Sixes River District, Coos Co., Oregon, USA	Independence	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157
	podchrome-00408	165	163	Middle Jurassic (164±1 Ma U-Pb zircon in plagiogranite)										Cr	149889	Last Chance (Part Of The Independence Group), Sixes River District, Coos Co., Oregon, USA	Last Chance Claim	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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