Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Idaho Primitive Area, Ramey Ridge District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 680
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 276155
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-276155.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Idaho Primitive Area, Ramey Ridge District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA": 34
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 34

Number of Child Localities: 34
Child Localities:
B. J. Prospect
Badger Claim
Beaver Creek Basin
Beaver Ridge Prospect (Aniti; Mother Lode)
Betty Jane Claim Occurrence
Colorado Claim
Crane Meadows Placer (Mountain Meadows)
Gold Bug No. 5 Claim
Gold Dollar Group (Trade Dollar; Little Annie)
Gold Reef Group
Gold Slide Group
Golden Occurrence
Goldfield Group
Hand Creek Placer
Hand Meadows Placer
Happy Jack Prospect
Lewiston Fraction Claim
Little Green Gem No. 7 Mine
Lower Ramey Meadows Placer
Luzon Claim (In Mahan Group?)
Mahan Prospect
Merrill And Vance Occurrence
North Mildred Claim
Pharmacist Prospect
Portland Prospect
Schley No. 3 Group (Includes Original Gold Crown Group)
Snowshoe Mine (Jensen; Orofino)
Submarine Claim
Thomas-Herzog Occurrence
Upper Ramey Meadows Placer
Valley View Claim
Virginia Group
Wild West Group Prospect
Yates Occurrence (Barton)

Latitude: 45°13'28"N
Longitude: 115°14'37"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.224444444444,-115.24361111111

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.

Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Malachite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Spinel
Zircon

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 Au C Cu Fe H O Pb S Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Malachite Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Spinel
Zircon

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*
Zircon ()*

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
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			14	208599,208600,208603,208604,208611,208612,208613,208615,208616,208621,208622,208626,208627,208628	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			1	208622	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	680	574	11	208596,208597,208602,208606,208608,208609,208610,208619,208620,208623,208625	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2.6	0	4	208602,208610,208614,208625	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			2	208599,208616	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			7	208599,208600,208603,208605,208616,208621,208627	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			11	208596,208599,208600,208606,208608,208613,208619,208620,208621,208622,208628	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			1	208622	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			21	208596,208597,208599,208600,208603,208604,208605,208606,208608,208611,208612,208613,208615,208616,208619,208620,208621,208622,208626,208627,208628	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			1	208606	5186
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2.6	0	4	208602,208610,208614,208625	5251

5 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Sample Num	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference ID
NAVDAT-12076	49	45	47±2			12076		136640	Colorado Claim, Idaho Primitive Area, Ramey Ridge District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00297_206_238	574	574	574	206_238	zircon		Zircon	137851	Hand Creek Placer, Idaho Primitive Area, Ramey Ridge District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA		USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00297_207_206	680	680	680	207_206	zircon		Zircon	137851	Hand Creek Placer, Idaho Primitive Area, Ramey Ridge District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA		USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00297_207_235	596	596	596	207_235	zircon		Zircon	137851	Hand Creek Placer, Idaho Primitive Area, Ramey Ridge District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA		USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
ree-00731	2.6	0	Quaternary					138771	Lower Ramey Meadows Placer, Idaho Primitive Area, Ramey Ridge District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA	Ramey Meadows	Orris and Grauch (2002)	USGSOFR02_189

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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