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Locality Name:
Nespelem District (Moses District), Colville Indian Reservation, Okanogan Co., Washington, USA

mindat Locality ID: 22083
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-22083.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nespelem District (Moses District), Colville Indian Reservation, Okanogan Co., Washington, USA": 50
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 38

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Armstrong Creek
Barry
Belvedere
Hobo Hill
Home Run Claim
Iron Crown Claim
Mineral Hill
Moses Mountain
Multnomah Hill
Nespelem
Nespelem River
Silver Point Claim
Squaw Mountain

Latitude: 48°10'47"N
Longitude: 118°59'53"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.179722222222,-118.99805555556

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.

Acanthite	Amorphous	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Fluorite
Garnet	Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Quartz
Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Serpentine	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite	Vesuvianite	Vivianite

Acanthite ()*	Annabergite ()*	Antigorite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Epidote ()*
Erythrite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Grossular ()*
Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stephanite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Zaratite ()*

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 Al As Au C Ca Cl Co Cr Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na Ni O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amorphous Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Fluorite
Garnet Malachite Marcasite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Pentlandite Pyrite Quartz
Rhodonite Rocksalt Serpentine Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite Vesuvianite Vivianite

34 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	5	284832,284837,284841,284844,284864	2793
Annabergite ()*	Vivianite	Ni₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	2	284851,284852	445
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	284850,284852	708
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	284823,284864	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	284823,284841,284847	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	284839	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	26	284823,284824,284826,284829,284831,284832,284833,284834,284837,284839,284840,284841,284845,284847,284851,284854,284855,284856,284857,284858,284860,284863,284864,284867,284869,284870	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	284844	1382
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	2	284851,284852	3902
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	7	284826,284834,284854,284855,284857,284860,284862	8173
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	284852	814
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	4	284837,284840,284856,284858	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	11	284823,284829,284837,284838,284839,284845,284847,284860,284862,284864,284867	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	284866	30554
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	284831	1544
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	6	284834,284854,284855,284857,284869,284870	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	10	284826,284831,284833,284834,284854,284855,284857,284862,284869,284870	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	5	284826,284845,284854,284855,284857	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	2	284823,284847	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	284856,284871	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	8	284829,284838,284839,284841,284851,284852,284856,284858	17380
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	284852	1512
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	4	284837,284841,284842,284844	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	31	284823,284824,284828,284829,284831,284832,284833,284834,284837,284838,284839,284840,284841,284842,284844,284845,284846,284847,284851,284852,284854,284855,284856,284857,284858,284863,284864,284867,284869,284870,284871	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	3	284824,284826,284852	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	22	284823,284824,284829,284832,284837,284838,284840,284841,284842,284845,284846,284847,284850,284851,284852,284856,284858,284860,284862,284864,284867,284871	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	3	284829,284837,284864	1711
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	284862	969
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	3	284832,284837,284841	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	9	284826,284831,284833,284837,284838,284847,284856,284860,284862	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	3	284832,284837,284841	586
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	4	284823,284824,284837,284863	5317
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	7	284826,284831,284833,284860,284862,284869,284870	1395
Zaratite ()*	Amorphous	Ni₃(CO₃)(OH)₄·4H₂O	1	284852	56

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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