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Locality Name:
Agness, Curry Co., Oregon, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 165
Youngest recorded age at locality: 98.26

mindat Locality ID: 213451
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-213451.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Agness, Curry Co., Oregon, USA": 49
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 47

Number of Child Localities: 42
Child Localities:
Agness Group
Amams Prospect (Adams Prospect)
Berry Prospect
Black Rock No. 10 Occurrence
Black Rock No. 31 Occurrence
Bunker Hill Group
Chrome Occurrence (Lode 27)
Chrome Occurrence (Ramp No. 100)
Clay Hill Prospect
Cobalt Group Prospects
Collier Creek Copper Company
Collier Creek Copper No. 13 Occurrence (Lewis)
Collier Creek Crags Occurrence
Copper Canyon Prospect
Edna Fry Occurrence
Foster Creek Claim (Part Of Illihe Group)
Galena King Occurrence
Game Lake Group
Gold Bar Mine
Gold Occurrence (Lode 25)
Gray Butte Occurrence
Gray Copper No. 18 Occurrence
Horsehead Occurrence (Wild Rose; Berry Prospect; Horse Sign Butte Prospect)
Illahe Group (Illane Group)
Indigo Creek Area (Indigo And Hugo)
Iron Hill Group (Iron Hill Group Agnes Area)
Kalmiopsis Wilderness
Kessler & Fry's Occurrence
Lower Larson Occurrence
Manganese Prospect (MRDS - 10052646)
Mindoro Project Occurrence
Nighthawk Prospect
North Star Chrome Prospect
Pastorelli Mining Claim
Pine Flat Mine
Shyrite Occurrence (Triple Asbestos Prospect; Triple Creek Asbestos; Triple Creek Group)
Slide Creek Bar Prospect
Stevens And Stear Occurrence (Indigo Group)
Triple Asbestos Prospect
Upper Lawson And Huntley Spring Occurrence
Wild Horse Mtn Occurrence
Windy Valley Group

Latitude: 42°29'16"N
Longitude: 124°4'58"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.487777777778,-124.08277777778
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: As C Co Cr Cu Fe H O S 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ChalcopyriteCopperMalachiteNickelineNoneNot in a structural groupPyriteSpinelVivianite

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Chalcocite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chromite  (*)Copper  (*)Cuprite  (*)
Erythrite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Malachite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S12568635707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2125684427198
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O416516318256835,256838,256839,256841,256842,256846,256847,256849,256850,256852,256858,256859,256869,256878,256879,256880,256881,2568823902
Copper  (*)CopperCu12568633846
Cuprite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu2O12568632970
Erythrite  (*)VivianiteCo3(AsO4)2·8H2O2256840,256863814
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O44256840,256856,256857,25686314899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)23256856,256863,25687112537
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22256844,25686839462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S82256840,2568449056


5 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
USGS-Rb-Sr-03575156.2698.26127.26±29Rb-Srage of metamorphic crystallizationwhole rock     148254Copper Canyon Prospect, Agness, Curry Co., Oregon, USA USGS-Rb-Sr USGS-Rb-Sr 
podchrome-00409165163Middle Jurassic (164±1 Ma U-Pb zircon in plagiogranite)       Cr148870Foster Creek Claim (Part Of Illihe Group), Agness, Curry Co., Oregon, USAFoster Creek ClaimMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 
podchrome-00410165163Middle Jurassic (164±1 Ma U-Pb zircon in plagiogranite)       Cr150628North Star Chrome Prospect, Agness, Curry Co., Oregon, USANorth Star ChromeMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 
USGS-Rb-Sr-03584143.3107.3125.3±18Rb-Srage of metamorphic crystallizationwhole rock     153392Wild Horse Mtn Occurrence, Agness, Curry Co., Oregon, USA USGS-Rb-Sr USGS-Rb-Sr 
USGS-Rb-Sr-03585156.2698.26127.26±29Rb-Srage of metamorphic crystallizationwhole rock     153392Wild Horse Mtn Occurrence, Agness, Curry Co., Oregon, USA USGS-Rb-Sr USGS-Rb-Sr 

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