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Locality Name:
Garden Spring Canyon, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA


mindat Locality ID: 27723
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27723.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Garden Spring Canyon, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Hickey No. 1 Mine
Ora Mine
Royal Flush Mine

Latitude: 33°50'18"N
Longitude: 106°21'46"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.838333333333,-106.36277777778

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: Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mo O Pb S Si V 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AluniteAragoniteBaryteBrochantiteCalciteDescloiziteFluoriteGypsumLinariteNone
QuartzRocksaltScheelite

13 IMA Minerals at location:
Anglesite  (*)Baryte  (*)Brochantite  (*)Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)
Fluorite  (*)Galena  (*)Gypsum  (*)Jarosite  (*)Linarite  (*)
Mottramite  (*)Quartz  (*)Wulfenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite  (*)BarytePb(SO4)2247274,2472762734
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)3247274,247275,24727611547
Brochantite  (*)BrochantiteCu4(SO4)(OH)612472741633
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)124727627770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)3247274,247275,2472764979
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF23247274,247275,2472769617
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS3247274,247275,24727624243
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O2247274,2472766890
Jarosite  (*)AluniteKFe3+3(SO4)2(OH)612472762228
Linarite  (*)LinariteCuPb(SO4)(OH)21247276987
Mottramite  (*)DescloizitePbCu(VO4)(OH)1247276362
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO23247274,247275,24727661156
Wulfenite  (*)ScheelitePbMoO42247274,2472751655



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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