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Locality Name:
Pedler Creek Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Iowa Co., Wisconsin, USA


mindat Locality ID: 264072
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-264072.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pedler Creek Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Iowa Co., Wisconsin, USA": 35
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 35

Number of Child Localities: 35
Child Localities:
Nigger Jim Diggings
Argall Mine
Baggaley Property
Baraboo Mine
Blackhawk Diggings
Fay Ray Mine
Goldsworthy Mine
Isabel Mine
Jackson Diggings
James W. Brown Mine
Jewell Mine
Kelly Prospect
Kilburg Mine
Laxley Mine
Manning Diggings
McShane And Gray Range
Melissa Sandstrom Mine
Tamblin Diggings
Unnamed Pb Mine [01]
Unnamed Pb Mine [02]
Unnamed Pb Mine [03]
Unnamed Pb Mine [04]
Unnamed Pb Mine [05]
Unnamed Pb Mine [06]
Unnamed Pb Mine [07]
Unnamed Pb Mine [08]
Unnamed Pb Mine [10]
Unnamed Pb Mine [9]
Unnamed Pb Pits [11]
Unnamed Pb Pits [12]
Victoria Mine (Advance Mine)
W. B. Marvin Mine
Wicks Diggings
Wicks Prospect
Williams Sulfur Mine

Latitude: 42°54'39"N
Longitude: 90°14'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.910833333333,-90.233611111111

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: Ba C Ca Cu Fe Mg O Pb S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
BaryteCalciteChalcopyriteMarcasiteNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltSphalerite

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Baryte  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Dolomite  (*)Galena  (*)
Marcasite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Smithsonite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)3288085,288086,28808711547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)4288085,288086,288087,28811527770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2128808527198
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)24288085,288086,288087,2881159895
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS4288085,288086,288087,28811524243
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS23288085,288086,2880875674
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23288086,288087,28811539462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22288086,28811561156
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)2288086,2880872473
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS4288085,288086,288087,28811521482



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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