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Locality Name:
Newport District, Pend Oreille Co., Washington, USA


mindat Locality ID: 24730
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-24730.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Newport District, Pend Oreille Co., Washington, USA": 32
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Ackerlund Claim
Alger And McCullough Group
Browns Lake
Cambell Claim (Star Claim)
Cook Mountain
Copper Hill Claim
Hardrock Thomas Claim
Marshall Lake
McCann Claim
Newport
No Name Peak
Pindle Claim
Rainbow Claim (Best Chance Claim)
Reidt Claim
Reynolds Creek Claim
Skookum Creek
Victory Claim

Latitude: 48°16'40"N
Longitude: 117°6'43"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.277777777778,-117.11194444444
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 As Ba C Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenopyriteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteMalachiteNoneNot in a structural groupPolybasitePyriteQuartz
RocksaltScheeliteSphaleriteStibnite

15 IMA Minerals at location:
Arsenopyrite  (*)Azurite  (*)Baryte  (*)Bornite  (*)Calcite  (*)
Chalcocite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)Malachite  (*)Polybasite  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Stibnite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS2285316,2853179052
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)212853325509
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)2285324,28534311547
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS42285319,2853345516
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)2285314,28531627770
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S12853195707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS210285314,285316,285317,285319,285322,285324,285328,285332,285334,28533527198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS128533524243
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2128533412537
Polybasite  (*)Polybasite[Ag9CuS4][(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7]1285332716
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS25285314,285319,285324,285334,28533539462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO219285314,285316,285317,285319,285320,285322,285324,285326,285327,285328,285329,285330,285334,285335,285338,285339,285340,285344,28534561156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)12853244894
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS128531421482
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S32285337,2853443418


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