Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Silver Plume, Clear Creek Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 293786
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-293786.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Silver Plume, Clear Creek Co., Colorado, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Brown Lode
Brownsville
Tishomingo Lode
Unnamed Cu-Pb Prospects
Unnamed Quarry

Latitude: 39°42'13"N
Longitude: 106°9'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.703611111111,-106.16305555556

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.

Allargentum	Copper	None	Rocksalt

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 As Au Cu Pb S Sb

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allargentum Copper None Rocksalt

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcocite ()*	Dyscrasite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Proustite ()*
Pyrargyrite ()*	Silver ()*	Stephanite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	186830	5707
Dyscrasite ()*	Allargentum	Ag_3+xSb_1-x (x ≈ 0.2)	1	186827	180
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	186827,186830	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	186829	30554
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	1	186827	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	2	186827,186828	1425
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	186827	5186
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	1	186827	586

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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