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Locality Name:
Tucson Wash, Mammoth, Mammoth District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 275154
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-275154.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tucson Wash, Mammoth, Mammoth District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Black Beauty Property
Ford Mine (Ford Property; Old Glory 1-5 Claims; Mammoth Tiger Extension Mining Corp. Property)
Mohawk Extension Property (Magma Copper Co. Property; Quarelli Property)
Thunderbird Mine
Unnamed Occurrence

Latitude: 32°42'10"N
Longitude: 110°41'41"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.702777777778,-110.69472222222

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: Al As Ba C Ca Cl Cr Cu H Mn Mo O Pb S Si V Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllophaneApatiteAragoniteBaryteCalciteCoronaditeDescloiziteFornaciteGypsumMolybdenite
NonePhenakiteQuartzScheelite

16 IMA Minerals at location:
Allophane  (*)Baryte  (*)Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chrysocolla  (*)
Dioptase  (*)Fornacite  (*)Gypsum  (*)Hollandite  (*)Mimetite  (*)
Molybdenite  (*)Mottramite  (*)Quartz  (*)Vanadinite  (*)Willemite  (*)
Wulfenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Allophane  (*)AllophaneAl2O3(SiO2)1.3-2.0·2.5-3.0H2O1145714470
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)114571711547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)114571727770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)11457164979
Chrysocolla  (*)Allophane(Cu2-xAlx)H2-xSi2O5(OH)4·nH2O11457143531
Dioptase  (*)NoneCuSiO3·H2O1145714164
Fornacite  (*)FornaciteCuPb2(CrO4)(AsO4)(OH)114571685
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O11457166890
Hollandite  (*)CoronaditeBa(Mn4+6Mn3+2)O161145714243
Mimetite  (*)ApatitePb5(AsO4)3Cl11457141107
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS211457145800
Mottramite  (*)DescloizitePbCu(VO4)(OH)1145714362
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2114571461156
Vanadinite  (*)ApatitePb5(VO4)3Cl2145714,145716605
Willemite  (*)PhenakiteZn2SiO41145714303
Wulfenite  (*)ScheelitePbMoO42145714,1457161655



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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