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Locality Name:
Valley Co., Idaho, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 541
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0.01

mindat Locality ID: 27194
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27194.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Valley Co., Idaho, USA": 590
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 542

Number of Child Localities: 92
Child Localities:
Bear Valley Area
Bear Valley Placer
Bell's Bar No. 1-3 Occurrence
Big Bend Nos. 1 And 2 Occurrence
Big Creek District
Black Cat Prospect
Boulder Creek Placer
Bruce Meadow Placer
Cache Creek Placer
Camas Creek Point Placer
Cascade
Clear Creek
Cougar Creek Area
Deadwood
Deadwood District
Deadwood River Area
Deep Creek
Deer Creek Ridge Occurrence
Donnelly
Edwardsburg District
Emma Group
Erwin Mickey Quartz Occurrence
Eureka Silver King Prospect
Fir Creek Placers
Fish Lake
Graphite Group Prospect
Green Mountain
Heavy Mineral Placer
Hull's Big Creek Placer
Idaho Primitive Area
Indian Creek District
Jacobs Quartz (Helmick Property)
K. G. Claim (Silver Prospect)
Lake Fork Creek
Little Joker Mine
Logan Creek Stock
Long Valley District
Loomis Occurrence
Marble Creek District
Marble Mountain
McCall
Middle Fork District
Middle Fork Payette River Area
Mile Flat
Monumental Creek District
Newcomb's Prospect
North Mildred Prospect
Oberbillig Deposit (Oberbillig-Quartz Creek)
Paddy Creek
Paddy Flat Placer Deposit (Cosumnes Placer Deposit)
Paddy Flat Road
Peace Valley Placers
Peterson Prospect
Pistol Creek District
Profile District
Quarry (MRDS - 10193887)
Ramey Ridge District
Ramshorn Placer
River Of No Return Wilderness
Robin Claim (Silver Prospect)
Rock Lake Occurrence
Sack Creek Placer
Salt Creek Prospect
Satermeadow Occurrence
Scott Valley Placer
Silver Eagle Prospect
Silver Prospect (MRDS - 10145095)
Silver Prospect (MRDS - 10266235)
Sloans Peak Lookout
Smith Creek
Smiths Ferry Area
Sourdough Nos. 1 And 2 Occurrence
South Fork Salmon River Addition
Squaw Meadows Prospect
Squaw Peak Prospect (Campbird-Payette Group; Payette & Campbird Groups; French Creek-Patrick Butte)
Stolle Meadows
Thunder Mountain District
Trigger Creek - Pistol Creek Area
Tungsten Point Occurrence (Wilson Creek Claims)
Twin Peaks
Unknown Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10266647)
Unknown Silver - Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10290932)
Unnamed Silver Prospect (MRDS - 10217307)
Unnamed Silver Prospect (Silver Prospect; MRDS - 10217987)
Unnamed Silver Prospect (Silver Prospect; MRDS - 10290565)
Van Wych Lookout Occurrence
Warm Springs Claim
West Fork Elk Creek Occurrence
West Mountain
West Mountain Placers
Wolf Fang Peak
Yellow Pine District

Latitude: 44°47'54"N
Longitude: 115°34'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.798333333333,-115.57388888889

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	Allophane	Alunite	Amorphous	Andalusite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite
Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Diaspore	Digenite	Epidote	Feldspar
Fluorite	Garnet	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Orpiment	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite
Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Staurolite	Stibnite	Talc	Tetrahedrite	Titanite	Topaz	Vesuvianite
Zircon

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 Ba Be C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H Hg K Mg Mn Mo Na Nb O Pb S Sb Si Ta Th Ti U W Y Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Alunite Amorphous Andalusite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite
Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Copper Corundum Covellite Diaspore Digenite Epidote Feldspar
Fluorite Garnet Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite Marcasite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Orpiment Pyrite Pyrochlore Pyroxene Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite
Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Staurolite Stibnite Talc Tetrahedrite Titanite Topaz Vesuvianite
Zircon

75 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Albite ()*	Anatase ()*	Andalusite ()*	Anglesite ()*
Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bertrandite ()*	Bornite ()*
Boulangerite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Corundum ()*	Covellite ()*	Digenite ()*
Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Grossular ()*
Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Hübnerite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Jarosite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Kermesite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*
Metacinnabar ()*	Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Opal ()*	Orpiment ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Polhemusite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Realgar ()*
Rhodonite ()*	Rutile ()*	Scheelite ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*
Spessartine ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Spinel ()*	Staurolite ()*	Stibiconite ()*
Stibnite ()*	Stolzite ()*	Talc ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Thorite ()*
Titanite ()*	Topaz ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Zircon ()*	Zoisite ()*

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
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	48	45	3	211554,211597,211691	2793
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)			2	211952,212070	8803
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂			1	211965	2162
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅			1	212070	1310
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)			2	211866,211882	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			2	212070,212092	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			1	211681	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	541	45	6	211556,211812,211818,211864,211866,212016	11547
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	48	45	1	211558	606
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	48	45	7	211568,211681,211720,211728,211736,211787,211905	5516
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	48	45	1	211556	843
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	48	45	12	211558,211627,211668,211687,211779,211896,211908,211909,211929,212055,212092,212097	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)			1	211681	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			1	211902	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	48	45	50	211554,211561,211562,211568,211586,211589,211592,211596,211597,211599,211644,211645,211675,211677,211679,211681,211683,211687,211688,211691,211696,211720,211787,211789,211802,211814,211816,211818,211825,211832,211839,211841,211848,211874,211876,211882,211896,211902,211905,211907,211908,211909,211910,211915,211922,211929,211933,211934,212055,212092	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O			1	211814	3531
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	48	45	18	211554,211555,211556,211894,212070,212073,212076,212079,212082,212083,212084,212088,212094,212096,212099,212101,212106,212108	2600
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃			3	211761,211774,211952	1797
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	48	45	4	211556,211649,211668,211679	4165
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S			1	211691	1027
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆			1	211949	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂			5	211668,211687,211802,212070,212073	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			8	211627,211630,211708,211774,211775,211776,211854,211949	8173
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	2.6	0.01	13	211521,211523,211528,211530,211534,211537,211539,211541,211544,211545,211547,211550,211709	414
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	48	45	11	211554,211558,211619,211649,211691,211706,211731,211742,211802,211896,211965	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	48	45	25	211558,211587,211625,211626,211645,211649,211657,211677,211679,211681,211683,211688,211691,211696,211700,211720,211863,211864,211866,211881,211882,211892,211905,212058,212094	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	211965	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	49	45	59	211563,211566,211569,211570,211571,211572,211573,211574,211575,211576,211577,211581,211582,211583,211584,211588,211590,211592,211593,211595,211597,211616,211621,211638,211656,211662,211687,211690,211691,211709,211756,211757,211758,211767,211788,211803,211819,211823,211826,211831,211844,211902,211911,211912,211916,211917,211918,211919,211920,211921,211925,211927,211965,211999,212011,212043,212070,212092,212108	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C			1	212105	2812
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			1	211627	1544
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			1	211902	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			11	211668,211779,211789,211814,211825,211845,211848,211902,211922,211952,212055	14640
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	48	45	8	211554,211559,211597,211598,211645,211688,211689,211691	469
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	48	0.01	25	211534,211541,211544,211569,211570,211572,211574,211575,211577,211580,211582,211583,211584,211588,211593,211616,211690,211709,211749,211761,211788,211803,211823,211831,211965	5433
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			1	211965	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	211965	5591
Kermesite ()*	None	Sb₂OS₂			3	211700,212070,212092	230
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	48	0.01	26	211534,211541,211544,211573,211580,211616,211724,211749,211814,211818,211819,211831,211845,211902,211908,211911,211912,211916,211917,211918,211919,211920,211921,211925,211927,211952	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	48	45	30	211586,211589,211640,211649,211657,211668,211681,211728,211779,211787,211789,211801,211802,211814,211816,211818,211825,211839,211902,211905,211907,211908,211909,211910,211913,211915,211922,211929,211933,211934	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			1	211728	5674
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	48	45	1	211555	255
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	211610	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			5	211874,211896,212055,212058,212092	5800
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O			1	211965	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	48	45	5	211556,211558,211668,211691,211952	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	48	45	6	211567,211591,211594,211762,211830,211834	2994
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃			1	212084	511
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	212108	2349
Polhemusite ()*	Sphalerite	(Zn,Hg)S	48	45	1	211555	4
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃			2	211696,211965	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	48	45	61	211554,211556,211558,211561,211562,211568,211592,211596,211597,211619,211625,211626,211638,211640,211644,211645,211649,211657,211668,211675,211677,211679,211681,211683,211687,211688,211691,211700,211779,211802,211816,211832,211863,211864,211866,211874,211881,211882,211896,211902,211905,211922,211928,211929,211933,211934,211965,212043,212055,212058,212070,212078,212084,212087,212090,212092,212094,212095,212097,212099,212108	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂			1	211902	3106
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	48	45	8	211592,211668,211872,211876,212055,212078,212092,212095	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	80	0.01	101	211554,211555,211556,211558,211559,211561,211562,211563,211566,211568,211586,211589,211592,211595,211596,211597,211598,211599,211610,211613,211617,211619,211625,211626,211627,211630,211638,211640,211645,211649,211657,211664,211672,211677,211679,211681,211683,211687,211688,211689,211691,211696,211700,211708,211720,211728,211731,211736,211742,211749,211775,211779,211787,211789,211801,211802,211811,211814,211816,211825,211832,211841,211848,211852,211854,211863,211864,211866,211876,211879,211896,211897,211902,211905,211908,211909,211910,211913,211922,211928,211929,211933,211934,211949,211965,212055,212058,212069,212070,212071,212073,212076,212078,212083,212087,212088,212092,212097,212099,212101,212108	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS			1	212084	712
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)			1	211688	969
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			3	211844,211965,212099	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	48	45	24	211546,211554,211558,211559,211563,211597,211619,211621,211645,211649,211668,211672,211679,211688,211689,211691,211851,211872,211876,211892,211896,211897,212098,212108	4894
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)			4	211625,211626,212092,212097	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			4	211638,211681,211691,211902	5186
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃			1	211544	1214
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	48	45	19	211554,211555,211556,211558,211597,211625,211626,211645,211649,211677,211679,211681,211683,211688,211691,211696,211700,211720,211892	21482
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄			1	211627	1934
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)			1	211690	978
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)			1	211700	446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	48	45	24	211554,211555,211556,211563,211596,211599,211687,211700,211928,212070,212071,212073,212078,212083,212084,212087,212088,212090,212092,212095,212097,212098,212102,212108	3418
Stolzite ()*	Scheelite	Pb(WO₄)			1	211691	156
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂			1	211677	3337
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	48	45	15	211554,211558,211597,211625,211626,211649,211657,211664,211677,211679,211681,211691,211696,211700,211832	5317
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)			1	211802	1006
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	2.6	0.01	4	211627,211749,211774,212067	4899
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂			1	211852	1476
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀			1	211896	1395
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2.6	0.01	10	211534,211541,211544,211616,211709,211749,211774,211823,211965,212099	5251
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	211896	1025

15 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Prioritized?	Sample Num	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 ID
ree-00714	2.6	0.01	Pleistocene					135812	Bear Valley Placer, Valley Co., Idaho, USA	Bear Valley	Orris and Grauch (2002)	USGSOFR02_189
Hg-00094	48	45				Cinnabar, Metacinnabar, Polhemusite	Hg	39611	Big Creek District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		Leonard et al. (1978); Leonard and Marvin (1982); Criss et al. (1984)
NAVDAT-20807	95	85	90±5		20807			136886	Deadwood, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-12084	48	47	47+1/-0		12084			135851	Belvidere Creek Occurrence, Edwardsburg District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-12088	49	45	47±2		12088			135851	Belvidere Creek Occurrence, Edwardsburg District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-12079	49	45	47±2		12079			135901	Big Creek Gold Mines Placer, Idaho Primitive Area, Edwardsburg District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-12078	49	45	47±2		12078			137584	Gold Hill Group, Idaho Primitive Area, Edwardsburg District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
ree-00715	2.6	0.01	Pleistocene					135907	Big Creek Placers (MRDS - 10193274), Long Valley District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA	Big Creek	Orris and Grauch (2002)	USGSOFR02_189
ree-00721	2.6	0.01	Pleistocene					137582	Gold Fork-Little Valley Placers (Upper Gold Fork Placers; Lower Gold Fork Placers; Little Valley Placers), Long Valley District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA	Gold Fork-Little Valley	Orris and Grauch (2002)	USGSOFR02_189
NAVDAT-12086	46	45	45+1/-0		12086			139281	Mountain View Placer, Idaho Primitive Area, Marble Creek District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-14202	80	70	75±5		14202			139643	Panther Prospect, Unorganized District, Middle Fork Payette River Area, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-12077	49	45	47±2		12077			136426	Catherine Lake Prospect, Idaho Primitive Area, Monumental Creek District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
ree-00694	541	541	Precambrian	low				139200	Monumental Summit Rare - Earth Prospect, Idaho Primitive Area, Thunder Mountain District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA	Monumental Summit	Orris and Grauch (2002)	USGSOFR02_189
NAVDAT-49695	52	44	48±4		49695			139383	New Hope Mine, Thunder Mountain District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-51197	52	44	48±4		51197			139383	New Hope Mine, Thunder Mountain District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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