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Locality Name:
Gilbert District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 29617
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29617.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gilbert District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Alto Divide Mine
Black Rock Prospect
Carr-Lovejoy Group
Carrie Mine (Hidden Treasure Mine; Bona Mine; Myers Mine)
Castle Rock Mine
Eureka Mine
Gilbert Mine
Gilbert Wollastonite (Tonopah Wollastonite)
Hanson Prospect
Last Hope Mine
Mammoth Prospect
Monte Cristo Mine
Monte Cristo Prospect (McLean Mine -center Of Mining; Tom Crown Lease; Homestake Claim; Goldenberg Tunnel; Monte Cristo Tunnel; Last Hope; Mule Flats; Black Mammoth; Water Well Sinter)
Ohio Claims (NBMG Sample Sites 1269; 1270)
Original Gilbert Mine
Unnamed Deposit
Unnamed Mine

Latitude: 38°7'24"N
Longitude: 117°43'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.123333333333,-117.7175

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	Alunite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Carminite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper
Covellite	Epidote	Gypsum	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pharmacosiderite	Pyrite
Pyrochlore	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Turquoise
Vesuvianite	Wollastonite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Bindheimite ()*	Calcite ()*
Carminite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Cervantite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Covellite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Malachite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Natrojarosite ()*	Pharmacosiderite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stetefeldtite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Turquoise ()*
Variscite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

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 C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Hg K Mg Mn Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Cu Fe H Na O S Sb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Alunite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Carminite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper
Covellite Epidote Gypsum Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pharmacosiderite Pyrite
Pyrochlore Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite Turquoise
Vesuvianite Wollastonite

38 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	236692	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	236692	2734
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	236692	1588
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	1	236685	450
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	236692,236697	27770
Carminite ()*	Carminite	PbFe³⁺₂(AsO₄)₂(OH)₂	1	236685	178
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	236692	4979
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	0		352
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	236685,236696	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	236692	1382
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	2	236686,236695	2600
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	236685	4165
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	236697	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	236685,236697	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	236685	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	8	236682,236686,236687,236688,236691,236693,236694,236696	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	236692	6890
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	236692	1689
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	236686	2228
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	0		12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	236685,236690	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	236685	17380
Natrojarosite ()*	Alunite	NaFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	0		254
Pharmacosiderite ()*	Pharmacosiderite	KFe³⁺₄(AsO₄)₃(OH)₄·6-7H₂O	1	236685	428
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	236692	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	236685,236686,236688	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	236683	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	13	236682,236683,236685,236686,236687,236688,236691,236692,236693,236694,236696,236697,236698	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	236685	4894
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	236692	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	236685	21482
Stetefeldtite ()*	Pyrochlore	Ag₂Sb₂(O,OH)₇	1	236698	22
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	3	236685,236686,236692	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	236685	5317
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	2	236684,236685	484
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	236684	301
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1	236697	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	2	236689,236697	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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