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Locality Name:
El Capitan, El Capitan District, Mescal Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 262455
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-262455.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "El Capitan, El Capitan District, Mescal Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
El Capitan Canyon
El Capitan Mine (Gold Dust Claim)
Grubstake Claims (Jim Whitaker Claims)
Mescal Mountain Prospect
Sky Deposit (Sky Prospects; Fran; Zora; Peanuts)

Latitude: 33°12'4"N
Longitude: 110°48'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.201111111111,-110.80361111111

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.

Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Gypsum	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Serpentine

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: C Ca Cu Fe H Mg O P Pb S Si U

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte Chalcopyrite Clay Gypsum Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Serpentine

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Gypsum ()*
Malachite ()*	Metatorbernite ()*	Pyrite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	138633	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	138633	5509
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	138633	27198
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	138632,138635	951
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	138636	6890
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	138633,138636	12537
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	138636	443
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	138633,138636	39462

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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