Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, Lemhi Co., Idaho, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 95
Youngest recorded age at locality: 65

mindat Locality ID: 276974
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-276974.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, Lemhi Co., Idaho, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Horse Creek Placers Nos. 1; 2; 3; 4 And Horse Bar

Latitude: 45°23'45"N
Longitude: 114°43'52"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.395833333333,-114.73111111111

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.

Copper	Corundum	None	Quartz	Rutile	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: Au Fe O Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper Corundum None Quartz Rutile Spinel Zircon

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*
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
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	95	65	1	210185	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	95	65	1	210185	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	95	65	1	210185	14899
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	95	65	1	210185	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	95	65	1	210185	5614
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	95	65	1	210185	5251

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	NAVDAT-49523	95	65	80±15					49523						138056	Horse Creek Placers Nos. 1; 2; 3; 4 And Horse Bar, Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, Lemhi Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT
	NAVDAT-51214	95	65	80±15					51214						138056	Horse Creek Placers Nos. 1; 2; 3; 4 And Horse Bar, Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, Lemhi Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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