Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Idaho Primitive Area, Edwardsburg District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA

mindat Locality ID: 275963
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-275963.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Idaho Primitive Area, Edwardsburg District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Big 4 Prospect
Crest Prospect
Dynamite Prospect
Golden Hand Mine (Old Neversweat; Golden Antler; Penn-Idaho)
Hercules Prospect
Hilltop Prospect
Joe Deposit
July Blizzard Prospect
Lost Packer Prospect
Lucky Boy Prospect
Nelly More Prospect
Powder Prospect
Pueblo Group (Columbia)
Snowdrift Prospect
Snowslide Prospect
Vee Prospect
Wabash Prospect
Wolf Prospect

Latitude: 45°12'45"N
Longitude: 115°20'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.2125,-115.33694444444

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Malachite	Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

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 Au C Ca Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Malachite Mica None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Malachite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	208239	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	208239,208244	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	208239	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	14	208236,208237,208238,208239,208240,208241,208243,208245,208247,208248,208250,208251,208252,208253	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	208239	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	208241,208243	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	208239,208244,208248	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	11	208236,208238,208239,208240,208241,208243,208244,208245,208247,208248,208251	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2	208236,208248	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	208239,208244	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	208239,208244	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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