Mineral Evolution Database

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Wallowa Range District, Wallowa Co., Oregon, USA

mindat Locality ID: 213516
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-213516.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wallowa Range District, Wallowa Co., Oregon, USA": 68
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 67

Number of Child Localities: 65
Child Localities:
Andy Heaverne Claims
Aneroid Lake Basin Occurrence
B C Basin Company Occurrence
Bluebird Group
Boner Flat Occurrence
Brown Lead Occurrence
Buck Horse Prospect
Bumper Occurrence (Bumber Lode Prospect)
Cold Springs Contact Occurrence
Copper Canyon Occurrence
Copper King Occurrence (Copper Gem Group)
D And D Occurrence (No. 1 And 2; And C.O.D.)
Discovery Occurrence
Donnelly Group (Blue Lake; Packsaddle Lode)
Edward Groh Occurrence
Falls Creek Forest Camp Occurrence (Don Ago)
Frances Lake Ridge Occurrence
Frasier Property
Frazier Lake Occurrence
Gillispie Occurrence
Gold Lode Claim (Gem Mine)
Gold Nugget Occurrence
Golden Eagle Group
Good Enough Prospect
Grandview Claims
Green Group (Mountain Gem; Copper Gem Group; Copper King)
Gyllenberg Claims
H. E. Peeples; Robert Brown Occurrence
Happy Jack Occurrence
Hard Climb Prospect
Hurricane Creek Occurrence (MRDS - 10032861)
Ice Lake Group
Independence Claim
Joseph Mountain Mine (McCully Mine)
Kipp-Freeman Occurrence
Last Chance Occurrence (Bowman Creek)
Le Gore Prospect (Red Cloud)
Lick Creek RARE II Area
Lost Creek Quartz Prospect
Lostine Copper Group
Manuel Lopez Claims
McCully Basin Occurrence
Metzger Property
Miners Basin
Old Francis Lake Trail Occurrence
Old Timer Prospect
Oregon Occurrence (Wilson)
Red Cloud Occurrence
Royal Purple Occurrence
Saddle Prospect
Silver Bullet Occurrence
Silver Site Occurrence
Spangled Treasure Occurrence
Streambed Prospect
Tenderfoot Occurrence
Transvaal Mines
Tunnel Occurrence (Streambed Prospect)
Twin Eagle Occurrence
Twin Ledge Occurrence
Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10036995)
Vancouver Occurrence
Walla Walla Group (Seeber Prospect)
Wallowa County Mining & Development Company (Williams Mine; Copper Mountain Prospect)
Wilmot Property (Matterhorn Group)
Wilson Mine

Latitude: 45°14'6"N
Longitude: 117°15'57"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.235,-117.26583333333

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Malachite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Titanite	Wollastonite

Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Epidote ()*
Ferrimolybdite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Malachite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Titanite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

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 C Ca Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S Sb Si Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Malachite Molybdenite Nickeline None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Titanite Wollastonite

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	262113	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	7	262084,262086,262103,262105,262113,262119,262135	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	262113,262133	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	15	262069,262082,262086,262087,262089,262094,262097,262105,262113,262122,262127,262130,262133,262134,262135	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	11	262069,262080,262086,262087,262094,262105,262113,262122,262127,262133,262135	8173
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	1	262135	345
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5	262082,262084,262095,262098,262102	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	262080	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	262076	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	9	262085,262086,262087,262089,262102,262111,262113,262121,262127	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	8	262086,262094,262102,262105,262114,262127,262133,262135	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	18	262077,262080,262081,262084,262085,262086,262087,262088,262094,262095,262103,262105,262116,262122,262126,262132,262135,262136	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	262105	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	19	262080,262081,262082,262084,262086,262087,262097,262102,262105,262111,262113,262119,262121,262127,262130,262133,262134,262135,262136	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	4	262086,262105,262114,262135	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	262082,262084,262095,262098,262105	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	262082	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	262086	4899
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	262105	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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