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Locality Name:
Salmon River Breaks, Salmon River District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 95
Youngest recorded age at locality: 65

mindat Locality ID: 274830
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-274830.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Salmon River Breaks, Salmon River District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Bear Creek Bar Placer (Bear Bar)
Smothers Fluorspar Prospect (Big Squaw Creek Fluorite; Big Squaw Creek Fluorite; Nousson Mine; Brown Cub 1 And 2 And Green Spar Claims)

Latitude: 45°30'6"N
Longitude: 115°1'48"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.501666666667,-115.03

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: Au Ca F Fe O Si Ti Zr 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperCorundumFluoriteNoneQuartzRutileSpinelZircon

7 IMA Minerals at location:
Fluorite  (*)Gold  (*)Ilmenite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Rutile  (*)Zircon  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF212087359617
Gold  (*)CopperAu9565120873430554
Ilmenite  (*)CorundumFe2+Ti4+O3956512087345433
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O49565120873414899
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO295652208734,20873561156
Rutile  (*)RutileTiO2956512087345614
Zircon  (*)ZirconZr(SiO4)956512087345251



2 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
NAVDAT-49581956580±15   49581    135795Bear Creek Bar Placer (Bear Bar), Salmon River Breaks, Salmon River District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-51357956580±15   51357    135795Bear Creek Bar Placer (Bear Bar), Salmon River Breaks, Salmon River District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 


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