Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Elephant Head Group Of Claims (Tremaine-Daniels Group), Mount Hopkins, Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 275052
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-275052.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Elephant Head Group Of Claims (Tremaine-Daniels Group), Mount Hopkins, Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 2
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Eureka Mine (Eureka Claim)
Quantrell Mine (Quantrell Claim)

Latitude: 31°42'47"N
Longitude: 110°55'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.713055555556,-110.92388888889

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	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

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 Cu Fe H K O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Chalcopyrite Clay Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	147099	2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	147099	5509
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	147099,147100	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	147100	24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	147099	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	147099	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	147100	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	147100	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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