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Locality Name:
Pinal Peak Area, Pinal Mountains District, Pinal Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 262445
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-262445.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pinal Peak Area, Pinal Mountains District, Pinal Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Bobtail Mine (Virginia Mine; Missouri Mine; Mariana Missouri Mine; Twentieth Century Claims; Wisner-Glassburn Property; Mariana Property; Bobaway Property; Doak Group)
Oversight Group (Big Skookum Claim)
Signal Peak Deposit
So And So Mine (So And So Extension Mine; So & So Group; So & So Extension Group; Lost Mine; Lost Mine Group)

Latitude: 33°16'55"N
Longitude: 110°50'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.281944444444,-110.83916666667

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 Al Au C Ca Cu Fe H Mn O Pb S Si W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
BaryteCalciteChalcopyriteClinozoisiteColumbiteCopperEpidoteNoneNot in a structural groupPyrite
RocksaltScheeliteSphalerite

14 IMA Minerals at location:
Anglesite  (*)Bornite  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Copper  (*)
Epidote  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Hübnerite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Scheelite  (*)Sillimanite  (*)Silver  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite  (*)BarytePb(SO4)11388142734
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS411388145516
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)113881427770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS22138811,13881427198
Copper  (*)CopperCu11388113846
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)11388148173
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2138811,13881424243
Gold  (*)CopperAu113881130554
Hübnerite  (*)ColumbiteMn2+(WO4)1138811469
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2113881139462
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)11388114894
Sillimanite  (*)Not in a structural groupAl2SiO511388131516
Silver  (*)CopperAg11388115186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS2138811,13881421482



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