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Locality Name:
Tip Top District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 31219
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-31219.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tip Top District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
76 Mine
Basin Mine
Big Fault Vein
Crosscut Mine (Crosscut Fault Vein; Cross-Cut And Gulch Patents)
Fawn Mine
Foy Mine - North Of
Foy Mine (Foy Group; Great Crosscut Vein; Foy Patented Claim MS 4294)
George Washington Mine (George Mine; Washington Mine; Atos Gold Mine)
Great Cross Cut Prospect (Pearl Adit; Johnston Group; Glory Hole; Thompson Mine)
Humming Bird Basin
Incas Mine
McDerwin Mine
Museum Mine (Silver Museum Mine; Museum Group; Museum Mining Group; Swilling Mine)
Nevada Mine
Pearl Mine
Rescue Mine
Ritha B Mine
Rowe Claim
Silver Jack Mine
Thule Creek Area
Tula Creek
Tule Creek Area

Latitude: 34°8'51"N
Longitude: 112°17'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.1475,-112.28361111111
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: Ag As Au Ba Ca Cl Cu Fe H Hg O Pb S Sb Si W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AmorphousAmphiboleArsenopyriteBaryteCopperNonePolybasitePyriteQuartzRocksalt
ScheeliteSphaleriteStibniteTetrahedrite

19 IMA Minerals at location:
Arsenopyrite  (*)Baryte  (*)Bornite  (*)Chlorargyrite  (*)Cinnabar  (*)
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Grunerite  (*)Opal  (*)Polybasite  (*)
Proustite  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)
Silver  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Stibnite  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS11479929052
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)114798011547
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS411479925516
Chlorargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgCl2147984,1479921382
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS11479812600
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2147979,14799224243
Gold  (*)CopperAu2147979,14799230554
Grunerite  (*)Amphibole   Fe2+2Fe2+5Si8O22(OH)21147977223
Opal  (*)AmorphousSiO2·nH2O11479802994
Polybasite  (*)Polybasite[Ag9CuS4][(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7]1147992716
Proustite  (*)NoneAg3AsS31147992733
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS311479921425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS24147975,147980,147984,14799239462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO24147978,147980,147981,14799261156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)2147978,1479804894
Silver  (*)CopperAg11479925186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS114799221482
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S32147972,1479883418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1311479925317


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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