Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Horseshoe Mountain, Wauconda District, Okanogan Co., Washington, USA

mindat Locality ID: 279250
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-279250.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Horseshoe Mountain, Wauconda District, Okanogan Co., Washington, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
American Flag Mine

Latitude: 48°45'13"N
Longitude: 118°50'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.753611111111,-118.845

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.

Acanthite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Feldspar	Fluorite	Malachite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite

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 Au C Ca Cu F Fe H K O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Chalcopyrite Copper Feldspar Fluorite Malachite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Bornite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sanidine ()*
Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	285210	2793
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	285210	5516
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	285210	27198
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	285210	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	285210	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	285210	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	285210	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	285210	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	285210	61156
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	285210	598
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	285210	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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