Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
South Butte Area, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 70
Youngest recorded age at locality: 8.61

mindat Locality ID: 228017
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-228017.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "South Butte Area, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Alvarez Claims (Ironside Mining Co. Property; Munsey Property; Ben Alvarez Group; Arizona Consolidated Gold And Silver Property; Arizona Copper Group)
Arizona Copper Group (Arizona Copper Co. Property; Salt Lake Property; Johnson Works)
Box O Wash
Palo Verde Claims (Victor Group)

Latitude: 33°3'13"N
Longitude: 111°12'56"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.053611111111,-111.21555555556

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.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

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
	PorphCu-00656	70	65	70–60									Chalcopyrite, Pyrite	Cu	228016	Red Hills Prospect, Alvarez Claims (Ironside Mining Co. Property; Munsey Property; Ben Alvarez Group; Arizona Consolidated Gold And Silver Property; Arizona Copper Group), South Butte Area, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA	Red Hills	Singer et al. (2008)		USGSOFR2008_1155
	Giersdorf_00000466	9.13	8.61	8.87±0.26	K-Ar				UAKA-76-89						68676	Palo Verde Claims (Victor Group), South Butte Area, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA	China Wash	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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