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Locality Name:
Golconda District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24111
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24111.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Golconda District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Golconda Mine
Golconda Summit
Hood Property
Hot Springs Mine
Kopenhaver Property
Kramer-Silver King Mine
L. A. Navarine Property
Little Britches Mine
Silver Coin Mine (Silver Coin Group; Kramer Property; Nevada Bureau Of Mines & Geology Sample Site 2307)
Thornton Mine
Unnamed Prospect
Unnamed Prospect (2)
Wilson Mine

Latitude: 40°53'58"N
Longitude: 117°23'11"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.899444444444,-117.38638888889

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	Alunite	Andalusite	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenic	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite
Clay	Clinozoisite	Coronadite	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Lepidocrocite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite
None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Tetrahedrite	Turquoise

Acanthite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuth ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*
Celsian ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcosiderite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Cymrite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*
Gibbsite ()*	Goethite ()*	Hollandite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Lepidocrocite ()*
Libethenite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pararealgar ()*
Pseudomalachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Scheelite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Hg K Mn Mo O P Pb S Sb Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Bi Cu Fe H O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Alunite Andalusite Apatite Aragonite Arsenic Baryte Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite
Clay Clinozoisite Coronadite Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Lepidocrocite Malachite Mica Molybdenite
None Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt Scheelite Tetrahedrite Turquoise

31 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	1	237316	2793
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	237315	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	0		1966
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	237309	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	237310	27770
Celsian ()*	Feldspar	Ba(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1	237315	100
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	237316	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Chalcosiderite ()*	Turquoise	CuFe³⁺₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	2	237309,237318	77
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	237316	1382
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	237317	2600
Cymrite ()*	None	Ba(Si,Al)₄(O,OH)₈·H₂O	1	237315	46
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	237310	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	237318	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	237311,237320	24243
Gibbsite ()*	None	Al(OH)₃	0		504
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	237308,237315	7437
Hollandite ()*	Coronadite	Ba(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	1	237308	243
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	237309	2228
Lepidocrocite ()*	Lepidocrocite	Fe³⁺O(OH)	1	237308	581
Libethenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(PO₄)(OH)	1	237318	234
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	237309	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	237319	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	237315	17380
Pararealgar ()*	None	As₄S₄	1	237308	57
Pseudomalachite ()*	None	Cu₅(PO₄)₂(OH)₄	2	237309,237318	369
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	237310,237315	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	237310,237315,237319	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	237312	969
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	2	237310,237314	4894
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	237316	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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