Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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

mindat Locality ID: 276762
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-276762.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Idaho Primitive Area, Ramey Ridge District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Acorn Butte No. 1 Prospect
Acorn Butte No. 2 Prospect
Acorn Butte No. 3 Prospect
Acorn Butte No. 4 Prospect
Beaver Creek Placer
Big Ramey Placer
Big Sunflower No. 1 Prospect
Black And White Claim (Gold Dollar)
Brown Bear Prospect
Carpenters Gulch Placer
Copper Camp Flat Placer
Copper Creek Placer
Crooked Creek Placer
Crossing Bar Placer
Fall Creek Placer
Golden Bear Claims
Little Ramey Placer
Lucky Strike Claim
Monumental Bar Placer
Mulligan Group Prospect (Deer Lodge Group)
Silver Dome Claim
Sulfide Prospect (Part Of Mulligan Group ?)

Latitude: 45°10'35"N
Longitude: 115°9'20"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.176388888889,-115.15555555556

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	Copper	Corundum	Malachite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Spinel	Stibnite

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: Au C Ca Cu Fe H O S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Malachite None Pyrite Quartz Spinel Stibnite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Stibnite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	211908,211909,211929	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	7	211907,211908,211909,211910,211915,211922,211929	27198
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	10	211911,211912,211916,211917,211918,211919,211920,211921,211925,211927	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	211922	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	11	211908,211911,211912,211916,211917,211918,211919,211920,211921,211925,211927	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	8	211907,211908,211909,211910,211913,211915,211922,211929	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	211922,211928,211929	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	211908,211909,211910,211913,211922,211928,211929	61156
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	211928	3418

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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