Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

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

Oldest recorded age at locality: 2000
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 262448
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-262448.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Little Acres 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:
King Group Of Claims (King No. 1-2-3 Claims)
Lulu Belle Number Seven
Rising Sun And Enterprise Claims
Tungsten No. 1 Mine

Latitude: 33°21'37"N
Longitude: 110°51'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.360277777778,-110.85638888889

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.

Chalcopyrite	Clay	Malachite	Mica	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Scheelite

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 C Ca Cu Fe H K O P Pb S Si U W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Clay Malachite Mica None Pyrite Rocksalt Scheelite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Malachite ()*	Metatorbernite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Scheelite ()*

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	2000	0	1	138790	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	138793	24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2000	0	1	138790	12537
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	2000	0	1	138790	443
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2000	0	1	138790	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2000	0	1	138790	39462
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)			1	138793	4894

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
	NAVDAT-51626	2000	0	1000±1000					51626						61478	King Group Of Claims (King No. 1-2-3 Claims), Little Acres Area, Pinal Mountains District, Pinal Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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