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:
Chinook Pass, Yakima Co., Washington, USA

mindat Locality ID: 29808
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29808.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Chinook Pass, Yakima Co., Washington, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Chinook Mine

Latitude: 46°53'18"N
Longitude: 121°29'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.888333333333,-121.49861111111

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.

Amorphous	Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	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: As Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: H O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Molybdenite None Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Opal ()*
Pyrite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	286426	9052
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	286426	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	286426	24243
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	286426	5800
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	0		2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	286426	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	286426	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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