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Locality Name:
Wellington Hills, Douglas Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 248056
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-248056.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wellington Hills, Douglas Co., Nevada, USA": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Risue Canyon District
Silver Glance District (Wellington District)

Latitude: 38°39'21"N
Longitude: 119°24'17"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.655833333333,-119.40472222222

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.

Alunite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Coronadite	Fluorite
Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Phosphosiderite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite
Spinel	Stibnite	Tetradymite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Baryte ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Corkite ()*	Coronadite ()*	Creedite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Gearksutite ()*	Gold ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pararealgar ()*
Phosphosiderite ()*	Powellite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Realgar ()*
Scheelite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Strengite ()*	Tetradymite ()*

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: Al As Au Ba Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mn Mo O P Pb S Sb Si Te W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Arsenopyrite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Coronadite Fluorite
Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Phosphosiderite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite
Spinel Stibnite Tetradymite

29 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	235599	9052
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	235597	919
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	235614	11547
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	235597	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	235598,235614,235615	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	235593,235597	27198
Corkite ()*	Alunite	PbFe³⁺₃(SO₄)(PO₄)(OH)₆	1	235614	151
Coronadite ()*	Coronadite	Pb(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆	1	235614	227
Creedite ()*	None	Ca₃Al₂(SO₄)(OH)₂F₈·2H₂O	1	235614	48
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	235614	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	235592,235602	24243
Gearksutite ()*	None	CaAlF₄(OH)·H₂O	1	235614	68
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	235600,235602	30554
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	2	235597,235614	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	235597	1066
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	235597	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	235593	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	235593,235596	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	235595	17380
Pararealgar ()*	None	As₄S₄	1	235614	57
Phosphosiderite ()*	Phosphosiderite	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	235614	182
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	1	235593	494
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	235598,235602,235603,235610	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	235591,235595,235598,235602,235607,235609,235614,235615	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	1	235614	712
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	7	235591,235592,235593,235603,235604,235611,235613	4894
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	235598	3418
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	235614	263
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	1	235600	510

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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