Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Oxbow Estates Area, Payson District (Green Valley District), Gila Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 262386
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-262386.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Oxbow Estates Area, Payson District (Green Valley District), Gila Co., Arizona, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Delaware Mine (Delaware Property)
Excursion Mine
Golden Wonder Mine (Eighty-Five Claim; 85 Mine)
Little Maud Mine
Lousy Gulch
Maggie Mine
Moore Mountain
Moore Mountain Area
Oxbow Hill
Pat Walsh Group
Pay Rock Mine (Pay Rock Property)
Rocky Ford Mine (Rocky Ford Property)
Single Standard Mine (Wonder Claim)
Squatter Mine (Lazy Gulch Mine; Lousy Gulch Mine)
Waif Mine

Latitude: 34°11'14"N
Longitude: 111°22'2"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.187222222222,-111.36722222222

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.

Allophane	Baryte	Bismutite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Descloizite
Diaspore	Epidote	Fluorite	Fornacite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Scheelite

Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismutite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Descloizite ()*	Dioptase ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*
Fornacite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Malachite ()*	Mottramite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Wulfenite ()*

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 Cr Cu F Fe H K Mo O Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Baryte Bismutite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Descloizite
Diaspore Epidote Fluorite Fornacite Kaolinite Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Scheelite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	138710	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	138719,138720,138725	11547
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	1	138713	716
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	138723	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	138710,138713,138723	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	138713,138723	3531
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	2	138717,138723	378
Dioptase ()*	None	CuSiO₃·H₂O	1	138723	164
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	138723	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	138723	9617
Fornacite ()*	Fornacite	CuPb₂(CrO₄)(AsO₄)(OH)	1	138713	85
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	138710	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	138710,138713,138723,138724,138728	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	138710,138713,138723	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	138710,138723	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	138710,138723	12537
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	2	138710,138713	362
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	138710,138723	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	138713	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	138710,138713,138723	61156
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	2	138713,138723	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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