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Locality Name:
Big Cottonwood District, Wasatch Mts, Salt Lake Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 27016
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27016.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Big Cottonwood District, Wasatch Mts, Salt Lake Co., Utah, USA": 115
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 112

Number of Child Localities: 101
Child Localities:
Adele And Adele No. 3 Occurrence
Alta Tunnel (Alta Tunnel And Transportation Company; Lucky Dutchman Shaft; Bodfish Tunnel; Prince Of Wales Group)
Alta Tunnel And Transportation Company Mine
American Metals Mine
American Prospect (Silver King Coalition Mines Company)
American Tunnel (Silver King Coalition Mines Company; American Mine; Silver King Western)
Annie Tunnel (Alta Tunnel And Transportation Company; Antelope Group; Prince Of Wales Group)
Antelope Mine
Argenta
Baby McKee Mine
Baker Claims Prospect
Benson Mine
Big Cottonwood Bonanza Group Prospects
Big Cottonwood Monarch Prospect
Black Bess Mine (Black Bess Shaft; Michigan-Utah Mine; Oregon Mine; Oregon-Black Bess Mine)
Branborg Tunnel Occurrence
Brighton
Butte Mine (Butte Tunnel; Michigan-Utah Mine)
Carbonate Mine (Homeward Bound Tunnel; Kessler Mining Company)
Cardiff Extension Prospect (Cottonwood Exchequer)
Cardiff Mine (South Fork Con Mine; Jones Mine; Mountain Chief Mine)
Charity Occurrence
Charles B Occurrence
Columbus Rexall Mine
Continental-Alta Occurrence (City Rocks)
Cooper Tunnel
Copper Apex Tunnel (Scott; Kennelly Ground; Crystal-Elgin; Silver King Western; Silver King Coalition Mines Company)
Copper King Mine
Cottonwood Consolidated Prospect
Cottonwood Grand Central Prospect
Cottonwood Heights
Cottonwood Metals Prospect (Watrous Prospect)
Crystal-Elgin Inclines (Silver King Coalition Mines Company; Kennelly Ground; Silver King Western)
Dolphin And Carioca Prospect (Hilton And Dobie Prospect)
East Carbonate Mine (Homestead Claim; Snowflake Claim)
Eclipse Mine (Hirshman Group)
Gladstone Mine
Great Western Mines (Mountain Lake Group; Great Western Mines Company)
Gustave Adolph Occurrence
Gypsy Blair Mine
Howard B Occurrence
Howell Mine
Illinois Occurrence
Interstate Brick Quartzite Quarry
Iowa Copper Mine (Silver King Western)
Jones Gold Prospect
Keeler Mine (Kesler Mine)
Kennebec Mine
Kentucky-Utah Adit (Big Cottonwood Coalition)
Kentucky-Utah Group (Woodlawn Mine; Gardner Adit; Mannahansett; New Sensation; Copper King; Big Cottonwood Coalition Group)
Kentucky-Utah Mine
Last Chance Mine (Last Chance Claim; Vina Claim)
Little Dollie Tunnel (Giles Group; Giles Mining And Milling Company; Giles Mining Company; Silver King Mines Company; Cottonwood King)
Little Giant Mine
Lulu Mine
Meadow Mine
Mineral Park Group Prospect (Wilson; Conteention; Newton; Wheeler; Branborg)
Monte Cristo Mine
Mortand Cement Limestone Pit
Mountain Lake Mine (Jack Mine; Great Western Adit; Great Western Mines; Mountain Lake Group; Great Western Tunnel)
Mountain View Mine
New State Mine (Golden Porphyry Drain Tunnel; Jefferson Extension; Wasatch Utah)
New York Tunnel (Evergreen Mine; Old Evergreen Mining And Tunneling Company)
Newport Claim
Old Evergreen Drain Tunnel (Lower Evergreen Drainage And Transportation Tunnel; Old Evergreen Mining And Tunneling Company)
Price Mine
Prince Of Wales Group (Boston Tunnel; Alta Tunnel And Transportation Company; Antelope Tunnel; Wellington Tunnel; Highland Chief)
Prince Of Wales Mine (Antelope And Wandering Boy; Alta Tunnel Lease; Annie Tunnel; Highland Chief Mine)
Prospects In Silver Fork Canyon
Prospects West Of Silver Lake
Queen Bess Mine
Red Bell Mine
Reed And Benson Mine (Craig Tunnel; New Goodspeed Tunnel; Kennebec Mine; Kennebec Consolidated Group)
Reeds Peak Consolidated Group (Big Cottonwood Consolidated; Elgin Adit)
Regulator Johnson Mine (Silver King Claims; Wasatch Gold Mine)
Relief Shaft Occurrence (Great Western Mines; Mountain Lake Group)
Richmond And Teresa Mine (Teresa Claim; Richmond Claim; Davenport)
Sampson Claim
Satisfaction Occurrence
Scotia Prospect (Woodlawn Mine; Kentucky-Utah Group; Big Cottonwood Coalition)
Scottish Chief Mine (Silver King Consolidated Mines Company; Insley; Silver King Western; Old Insley)
Silver Fork Tunnel Occurrence
Silver King Claims (Lake Blanche Group; Wasatch Gold Mine; Mountain Mines; Regulator Johnson Mine)
Silver King Coalition Mines Company (Copper Apex Group-Barry Coxe Mine; Iowa Copper Tunnel; Scottish Chief Mine; American Tunnel; Insley Property - Denver Boy Adit)
Silver Moon Prospect
Silver Mountain Mine
Snow Slide
Solitude Peak
Solitude Tunnel (Michigan-Utah Consolidated Mines Company; Michigan-Utah Mine)
South Price Mine (Victor Tunnel)
St. Louis Tunnel (R And B North Extension Tunnel; Reed And Benson Extension Tunnel)
St. Patrick Prospect
Steamboat Mine
Sunny Side Mine (Congor; Congor Property)
Swastika Copper Property (Swastika Copper Company; Umpire Claims; Blue Jacket Mining And Milling Company; Plesant Star Claims)
Tar Baby Mine
Tungsten Tunnel Mine
Tuscarora Tunnel Occurrence (Great Western Mines Company; Tuscarora Chief Prospect; Mountain Lake Group)
W. S. Brighton Prospect (Great Western Mines Company; Mountain Lake Group)
Wasatch Mine
Woodlawn Mine

Latitude: 40°36'55"N
Longitude: 111°38'9"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.615277777778,-111.63583333333

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.

Acanthite	Allargentum	Allophane	Alunite	Amphibole	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brucite	Calcite
Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore	Enargite	Epidote
Feldspar	Garnet	Linarite	Ludwigite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Olivine
Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sartorite	Scheelite	Sepiolite	Sphalerite	Spinel
Talc	Tetrahedrite	Vesuvianite	Wollastonite	Wurtzite

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 As Au B Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Li Mg Mn Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Ba Ca Fe O Pb S Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allargentum Allophane Alunite Amphibole Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brucite Calcite
Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore Enargite Epidote
Feldspar Garnet Linarite Ludwigite Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Olivine
Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sartorite Scheelite Sepiolite Sphalerite Spinel
Talc Tetrahedrite Vesuvianite Wollastonite Wurtzite

71 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Andradite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Anorthite ()*
Antlerite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*
Brucite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chlorargyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Clintonite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*
Cuprite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Dufrénoysite ()*	Dyscrasite ()*
Enargite ()*	Ephesite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Forsterite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Hübnerite ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*	Linarite ()*	Ludwigite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Massicot ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Periclase ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Plattnerite ()*	Plumbojarosite ()*	Powellite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*
Rosasite ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sepiolite ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*	Sussexite ()*	Szaibélyite ()*
Talc ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tremolite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Wollastonite ()*
Wulfenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	18	275528,275532,275533,275549,275554,275561,275562,275573,275578,275590,275593,275600,275607,275611,275617,275620,275621,275629	2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	6	275552,275574,275600,275610,275616,275637	3419
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	0		1534
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	7	275549,275553,275562,275573,275576,275621,275629	2734
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	1	275537	1036
Antlerite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu²⁺₃(SO₄)(OH)₄	1	275574	246
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	3	275554,275556,275587	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	6	275534,275554,275556,275576,275608,275615	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	7	275552,275559,275562,275573,275578,275600,275616	5516
Brucite ()*	Brucite	Mg(OH)₂	3	275552,275600,275616	462
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	18	275528,275532,275533,275539,275541,275549,275553,275556,275561,275590,275607,275610,275611,275617,275620,275621,275626,275629	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	13	275529,275530,275534,275546,275554,275556,275560,275576,275588,275608,275613,275626,275641	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	275600,275633	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	29	275532,275537,275540,275546,275552,275559,275562,275573,275574,275578,275582,275585,275589,275590,275591,275593,275595,275600,275602,275603,275605,275613,275616,275620,275621,275629,275638,275639,275641	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	275617	1382
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	275585,275621	3531
Clintonite ()*	Mica Clay	CaAlMg₂(SiAl₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	4	275552,275570,275600,275628	86
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	275576,275608	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	275556,275562	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2	275554,275563	2970
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	4	275541,275542,275600,275621	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	22	275528,275533,275542,275549,275553,275556,275561,275565,275572,275574,275590,275603,275605,275607,275609,275611,275615,275616,275620,275626,275629,275635	9895
Dufrénoysite ()*	Sartorite	Pb₂As₂S₅	0		34
Dyscrasite ()*	Allargentum	Ag_3+xSb_1-x (x ≈ 0.2)	1	275541	180
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	2	275556,275559	910
Ephesite ()*	Mica	NaLiAl₂(Si₂Al₂)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	275552,275600	21
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	7	275541,275552,275574,275600,275610,275616,275628	8173
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	1	275529	345
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	4	275552,275600,275616,275633	1188
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	59	275528,275529,275530,275532,275533,275534,275537,275538,275539,275540,275541,275542,275543,275544,275546,275547,275549,275552,275554,275555,275556,275557,275558,275559,275561,275562,275565,275572,275573,275576,275578,275581,275582,275585,275588,275589,275590,275591,275593,275595,275600,275607,275608,275611,275612,275613,275614,275615,275616,275617,275619,275620,275621,275626,275629,275630,275636,275640,275641	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	4	275546,275554,275576,275613	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	20	275532,275533,275537,275541,275547,275549,275553,275562,275573,275578,275590,275593,275600,275602,275607,275616,275620,275621,275629,275632	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	275562,275573,275585	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	3	275546,275556,275613	1689
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	1	275637	469
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	2	275552,275600	341
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	275556	987
Ludwigite ()*	Ludwigite	Mg₂Fe³⁺O₂(BO₃)	4	275552,275578,275600,275601	134
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	11	275552,275574,275578,275589,275591,275600,275603,275605,275610,275616,275641	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	29	275529,275532,275534,275541,275549,275552,275553,275554,275556,275562,275569,275573,275574,275576,275585,275593,275600,275603,275605,275607,275608,275609,275610,275615,275616,275621,275629,275635,275641	12537
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	1	275560	202
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	275529,275563	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	4	275556,275582,275600,275610	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	275570	2349
Periclase ()*	Rocksalt	MgO	2	275552,275600	114
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	4	275542,275552,275600,275616	2273
Plattnerite ()*	Rutile	PbO₂	1	275560	158
Plumbojarosite ()*	Alunite	Pb_0.5Fe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	275556	477
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	1	275637	494
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	23	275530,275537,275540,275541,275552,275556,275559,275574,275578,275582,275585,275589,275591,275600,275603,275605,275610,275615,275616,275626,275630,275638,275641	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	3	275554,275556,275641	3106
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	4	275544,275556,275582,275621	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	31	275528,275530,275532,275533,275540,275541,275544,275549,275553,275556,275559,275561,275562,275569,275570,275573,275582,275584,275585,275590,275602,275607,275611,275615,275617,275620,275621,275626,275629,275637,275638	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	275556	1711
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	275556	454
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	7	275552,275573,275578,275591,275600,275616,275637	4894
Sepiolite ()*	Sepiolite Clay	Mg₄Si₆O₁₅(OH)₂·6H₂O	1	275541	241
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	2	275559,275595	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	9	275537,275538,275539,275541,275542,275547,275597,275612,275621	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	13	275528,275529,275533,275534,275539,275549,275553,275554,275556,275608,275618,275626,275629	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	28	275528,275530,275533,275534,275537,275541,275542,275546,275550,275556,275562,275565,275572,275573,275582,275585,275589,275590,275591,275608,275613,275620,275626,275629,275630,275634,275640,275641	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	275628	1934
Sussexite ()*	None	Mn²⁺BO₂(OH)	2	275552,275600	25
Szaibélyite ()*	None	MgBO₂(OH)	1	275600	87
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	4	275552,275574,275600,275616	3337
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	8	275541,275546,275556,275559,275590,275598,275613,275620	5317
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	5	275552,275574,275600,275610,275616	2562
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	2	275542,275574	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	2	275541,275593	1247
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	4	275549,275553,275560,275641	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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