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Locality Name:
Radium, Burch Area, Globe Hills, Globe Hills District, Globe-Miami District, Gila Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 57.2
Youngest recorded age at locality: 54.4

mindat Locality ID: 274831
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-274831.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Radium, Burch Area, Globe Hills, Globe Hills District, Globe-Miami District, Gila Co., Arizona, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Apache Mine (Defiance Mine; Defiance Lead Mine; Apache Vanadium Mine; Defiance Vein; Vanadium Shaft)
Ruby Star Mine

Latitude: 33°28'10"N
Longitude: 110°48'52"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.469444444444,-110.81444444444

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.

Allophane	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Clay	Covellite	Descloizite	Fluorite
Kaolinite	Malachite	Matlockite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Palygorskite	Phenakite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Scheelite	Sphalerite

Anglesite ()*	Boleite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Covellite ()*	Descloizite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Matlockite ()*
Mottramite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Palygorskite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Vanadinite ()*	Willemite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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 C Ca Cl Cu F H K Mg Mo O Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Clay Covellite Descloizite Fluorite
Kaolinite Malachite Matlockite Mica None Not in a structural group Palygorskite Phenakite Quartz Rocksalt
Scheelite Sphalerite

23 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	57.2	54.4	1	138275	2734
Boleite ()*	None	KAg₉Pb₂₆Cu₂₄Cl₆₂(OH)₄₈	57.2	54.4	1	138275	65
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	57.2	54.4	1	138275	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	57.2	54.4	1	138275	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	57.2	54.4	1	138275	4979
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	57.2	54.4	1	138275	3531
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	57.2	54.4	1	138275	4165
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	57.2	54.4	1	138275	378
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	57.2	54.4	1	138275	9895
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	57.2	54.4	1	138275	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	57.2	54.4	1	138275	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	57.2	54.4	1	138275	1689
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	57.2	54.4	1	138275	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	57.2	54.4	1	138275	12537
Matlockite ()*	Matlockite	PbClF	57.2	54.4	1	138275	29
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	57.2	54.4	1	138275	362
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	57.2	54.4	1	138275	17380
Palygorskite ()*	Palygorskite Clay	(Mg,Al)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)·4H₂O	57.2	54.4	1	138275	306
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	57.2	54.4	1	138275	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	57.2	54.4	1	138275	21482
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	57.2	54.4	2	138275,138276	605
Willemite ()*	Phenakite	Zn₂SiO₄	57.2	54.4	1	138275	303
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	57.2	54.4	1	138275	1655

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	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 DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Giersdorf_00000367	57.2	54.4	55.8±1.4	K-Ar				UAKA-69-10		Yes				24945	Globe-Miami District, Gila Co., Arizona, USA	Globe Quad.	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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