Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Jamestown, Jamestown District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 24178
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24178.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Jamestown, Jamestown District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Cerite Occurrences ("Rusty Gold" Locality)
Alice Mine
Aplite Dikes
Blue Jay Mine
Buckhorn Mine (Bigthing)
Burlington Mine
Wano Mine

Latitude: 40°7'25"N
Longitude: 105°23'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.123611111111,-105.38916666667

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.

Allanite	Apatite	Baryte	Bastnäsite	Buckhornite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Copper
Covellite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Fornacite	Gatelite	Melonite	Meneghinite	Mica	Monazite
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetradymite	Tetrahedrite	Zircon

Aikinite ()*	Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Bastnäsite-(Ce) ()*
Buckhornite ()*	Calaverite ()*	Celestine ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Coffinite ()*
Covellite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferberite ()*	Fluorbritholite-(Ce) ()*	Fluorite ()*
Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*	Gearksutite ()*	Gold ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*
Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Uranophane-β ()*	Perbøeite-(Ce) ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sylvanite ()*	Tellurium ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Tetradymite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Thorite ()*	Törnebohmite-(Ce) ()*	Uraninite ()*
Uranophane-α ()*

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 Bi C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H K O P Pb S Sb Si Sr Te Th U W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allanite Apatite Baryte Bastnäsite Buckhornite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Copper
Covellite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Fornacite Gatelite Melonite Meneghinite Mica Monazite
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetradymite Tetrahedrite Zircon

36 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aikinite ()*	Meneghinite	CuPbBiS₃	1	184831	315
Allanite-(Ce) ()*	Allanite Epidote	CaCe(Al₂Fe²⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	184827,184829	706
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	184832	1588
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	184830	3092
Bastnäsite-(Ce) ()*	Bastnäsite	Ce(CO₃)F	1	184827	304
Buckhornite ()*	Buckhornite	(Pb₂BiS₃)(AuTe₂)	1	184831	13
Calaverite ()*	Melonite	AuTe₂	1	184831	361
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1	184832	1252
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	184828,184831,184832	27198
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O	1	184830	566
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	184831	4165
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	184827	8173
Ferberite ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺(WO₄)	1	184830	551
Fluorbritholite-(Ce) ()*	Apatite	(Ce,Ca)₅(SiO₄)₃F	2	184827,184829	19
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	6	184827,184828,184829,184830,184831,184832	9617
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	1	184828	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	184828,184830,184831,184832	24243
Gearksutite ()*	None	CaAlF₄(OH)·H₂O	1	184832	68
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	184831	30554
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	184829	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	184830,184832	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	184830	2349
Uranophane-β ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	184827	144
Perbøeite-(Ce) ()*	Gatelite	(CaCe₃)(Al₃Fe²⁺)(Si₂O₇)(SiO₄)₃O(OH)₂	1	184827	4
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	184827,184828,184830,184831,184832	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	184827,184828,184829,184830,184831,184832	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	184830,184831	21482
Sylvanite ()*	Melonite	AgAuTe₄	2	184828,184833	337
Tellurium ()*	None	Te	2	184828,184833	190
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	2	184828,184831	1803
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	1	184831	510
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	184831	5317
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1	184830	1006
Törnebohmite-(Ce) ()*	Fornacite	Ce₂Al(SiO₄)₂(OH)	1	184827	23
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	4	184827,184829,184830,184832	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	184827	890

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050657	Jamestown, Jamestown District, Boulder Co., Colorado, USA	https://rruff.info/R050657

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