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Locality Name:
Red Mountain, Red Mountain District, Ouray Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 277338
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-277338.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Red Mountain, Red Mountain District, Ouray Co., Colorado, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
National Belle Mine (National Bell Mine)

Latitude: 37°54'15"N
Longitude: 107°42'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.904166666667,-107.70388888889

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.

Alunite	Aragonite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Diaspore	Enargite	Fluorite
Germanite	Kaolinite	Malachite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Alunite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Baryte ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Colusite ()*	Covellite ()*	Diaspore ()*	Dickite ()*	Enargite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Natroalunite ()*
Pitticite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Uraninite ()*	Zunyite ()*

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 As Au Ba C Cl Cu F Fe H K Na O Pb S Sb Si U V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Aragonite Baryte Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Diaspore Enargite Fluorite
Germanite Kaolinite Malachite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

24 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	194324	966
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	194324	2734
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	194324	11547
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	194324	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	194324	27198
Colusite ()*	Sphalerite Germanite	Cu₁₃VAs₃S₁₆	1	194324	110
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	194324	4165
Diaspore ()*	Diaspore	AlO(OH)	1	194324	481
Dickite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	194324	651
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	194324	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	194324	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	194324	30554
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	194324	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	194324	12537
Natroalunite ()*	Alunite	NaAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	194324	128
Pitticite ()*	None	[Fe,AsO₄,SO₄,H₂O] (?)	1	194324	140
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	194324	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	194324	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	194324	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	194324	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	194324	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	194324	5317
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	194324	2718
Zunyite ()*	None	Al₁₃Si₅O₂₀(OH,F)₁₈Cl	1	194324	86

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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