Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, USA

mindat Locality ID: 216289
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-216289.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Benton, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, USA": 42
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 42

Number of Child Localities: 42
Child Localities:
Appleby Level
Bearcat (Hird No. 3 Mine)
Benton Star Mine
Bull Moose Mine
Calvert Mine
Century Mine
Coltman Mine
Consolidated Mine
Coor Mine
Corr Mine
Crooked Six Mine
Drum Mine
Drybone Opencut Mine
Etna Mine (Appleby; Looney Level)
Ewing And Cook Mine
Farrey Mine
Frontier Mine
Hird No. 1 Mine
Hird No. 2 Mine
Jack Of Clubs Mine (Dawson; Lafayette)
Jug Handle Mine
Kearns Mine
Kittoe Mine
Kivlahan Mine
Leadmine (Leekley Level; Howe And Alderson Mine)
Martin Mine
McCabe Mine (Northwestern Mine; Southeast McCabe)
McCann Mine
Middie Mine
Milner Mine (Oregon Mine)
New Calvert Mine (Soft Calvert Mine)
New Ida Blende Mine
North Star Mine (Ralph Mine)
Old Ida Blende Mine (Ida-Blende Mine; Ida; Blende)
Ollie Belle Mine (Leekley; Kerwin; Curwin And Miller)
Pittsburg-Benton Mine
Quinlan Diggings (Lea And Swifts Bone Diggings)
Swift And Rooney Mine
Treganza Mine
Vandeventer Mine
Victory Mine
Whaley Mine

Latitude: 42°34'16"N
Longitude: 90°21'58"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.571111111111,-90.366111111111

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.

Baryte	Calcite	Cobaltite	Diaspore	Hydrotalcite	Marcasite	Millerite	None	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Vivianite	Woodwardite

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cobaltite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Erythrite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Honessite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Millerite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Violarite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Co Fe H Mg Ni O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Calcite Cobaltite Diaspore Hydrotalcite Marcasite Millerite None Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Vivianite Woodwardite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	288262	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	40	288248,288249,288250,288251,288252,288253,288254,288255,288257,288258,288259,288261,288262,288263,288264,288265,288266,288267,288268,288269,288270,288271,288272,288273,288274,288275,288276,288277,288278,288279,288280,288281,288282,288283,288284,288285,288286,288287,288288,288289	27770
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	1	288273	966
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	40	288248,288249,288250,288251,288252,288253,288254,288255,288257,288258,288259,288261,288262,288263,288264,288265,288266,288267,288268,288269,288270,288271,288272,288273,288274,288275,288276,288277,288278,288279,288280,288281,288282,288283,288284,288285,288286,288287,288288,288289	9895
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	288273	814
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	22	288250,288251,288253,288254,288257,288258,288261,288262,288263,288265,288267,288270,288272,288273,288274,288276,288279,288281,288282,288283,288284,288285	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	288263	7437
Honessite ()*	Woodwardite Hydrotalcite	(Ni_1-xFe³⁺_x)(SO₄)_x/2(OH)₂·nH₂O (x < 0.5, n < 3x/2)	1	288263	25
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	24	288250,288251,288253,288254,288255,288257,288258,288261,288262,288263,288265,288267,288268,288270,288272,288273,288274,288276,288281,288282,288283,288284,288285,288289	5674
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	1	288263	1066
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	38	288248,288249,288250,288251,288252,288253,288254,288257,288259,288261,288262,288263,288264,288265,288266,288267,288268,288269,288270,288271,288272,288273,288274,288275,288276,288277,288278,288279,288280,288281,288282,288283,288284,288285,288286,288287,288288,288289	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	38	288248,288249,288250,288251,288252,288253,288254,288257,288259,288261,288262,288263,288264,288265,288266,288267,288268,288269,288270,288271,288272,288273,288274,288275,288276,288277,288278,288279,288280,288281,288282,288283,288284,288285,288286,288287,288288,288289	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	15	288253,288254,288258,288262,288268,288269,288271,288272,288277,288279,288281,288282,288283,288284,288285	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	40	288248,288249,288250,288251,288252,288253,288254,288255,288257,288258,288259,288261,288262,288263,288264,288265,288266,288267,288268,288269,288270,288271,288272,288273,288274,288275,288276,288277,288278,288279,288280,288281,288282,288283,288284,288285,288286,288287,288288,288289	21482
Violarite ()*	Spinel	FeNi₂S₄	1	288263	380

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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