Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Treasure Hill, Silver City, Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 32
Youngest recorded age at locality: 32

mindat Locality ID: 256704
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-256704.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Treasure Hill, Silver City, Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA": 31
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 31

Number of Child Localities: 31
Child Localities:
Blue Bird Shaft Occurrence
Butcher Boy Mine (Bowers Extension Mine)
Columbus Tunnel Occurrence
Copper Queen Mine
Diamond Queen Mine
Fremont Shaft Occurrence
Golden Key
Golden Treasure Mine (Tintic Copper King Prospect; Treasure Hill Shaft)
Hidden Shafts Occurrence (Weir Estate)
Joe Bowers Mine
Laclede Shaft (Weir Property)
Lady Aspinwall
Little May Shaft (Matson Shaft)
Lucky Boy Prospect
Luzerne Prospect
Mintintic Drill Hole 4 Occurrence (Longyear-Kennecott Hole)
New State Prospect
Niebaver Mine (Weir Estate)
Republic Shaft (Weir Estate)
Ruby Mine (Alaska)
Showers Mine (Shower Consolidated; Bowers And Showers)
Tesora Prospect
Treasure Hill Mine
Trephine Prospect
Triumph Prospect (Triumph Consolidated)
Turk And Governor Prospects
Undine And Joe Daly Prospects (Joe)
Unidentified Shaft Occurrence
United Tintic Mine (South Standard Claims)
Unnamed Drill Hole And Prospect
West Morning Glory Shaft (Weir Estate)

Latitude: 39°53'44"N
Longitude: 112°6'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.895555555556,-112.10083333333

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Enargite	Malachite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

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: As Au C Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Enargite Malachite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Enargite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Malachite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	32	32	2	274294,274301	27198
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	32	32	5	274289,274303,274305,274306,274311	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	32	32	5	274285,274294,274301,274305,274311	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	32	32	1	274304	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	32	32	1	274304	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	32	32	8	274285,274289,274292,274301,274306,274307,274312,274315	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	32	32	7	274285,274289,274292,274301,274303,274305,274312	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	32	32	1	274304	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	32	32	1	274294	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	32	32	2	274292,274301	5317

1 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
	sedznpb-00496	32	32	32							Yes				4192	Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA	Tintic–East Tintic	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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