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Locality Name:
Gillette Mountain, Stevens Co., Washington, USA


mindat Locality ID: 28862
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-28862.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gillette Mountain, Stevens Co., Washington, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Big Chief Mine
Chloride Queen Mine (Colville Queen Mine)
Neglected Mine
Shoemaker Mine
Tenderfoot Mine (Avondale-Dome Mine; Gillette Mine)

Latitude: 48°41'11"N
Longitude: 117°50'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 48.686388888889,-117.845

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: C Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteNoneNot in a structural groupPyriteQuartzRocksaltScheelite
Sphalerite

12 IMA Minerals at location:
Anglesite  (*)Azurite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)
Hemimorphite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Siderite  (*)Smithsonite  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)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)12859952734
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)212859955509
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)3285991,285992,2859954979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2128599227198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS5285991,285992,285993,285994,28599524243
Hemimorphite  (*)Not in a structural groupZn4(Si2O7)(OH)2·H2O2285992,2859951689
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS24285991,285992,285994,28599539462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22285991,28599261156
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)2285991,2859926417
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)12859952473
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS4285991,285992,285993,28599421482
Wulfenite  (*)ScheelitePbMoO412859951655



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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