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Locality Name:
Pinaleño Mts, Aravaipa District, Graham Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 331
Youngest recorded age at locality: 24.05

mindat Locality ID: 31266
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-31266.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pinaleño Mts, Aravaipa District, Graham Co., Arizona, USA": 42
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 29

Number of Child Localities: 25
Child Localities:
Artesia
Battle Mountain
Black Hole Prospect (Black Hole Deposit)
Cedar Mountain
Cocreham Beryllium Mine
Cove Canyon
Durkee Canyon
Hansen Canyon
Hansen Canyon Area
High Noon Group (Espero Group)
Iron Hill Lode No. 1 (Silaceous Copper Prospect)
Kane Spring Mountain
Lindsey Group (Lindsey Gold-Silver Group)
Marijilda Wash Area
Mt Graham
Starlight Mine
Stockton Wash
Swift Trail Junction
Twilight And Grey Claims (Twilight And Grey Groups; Twilight Group; Grey Group)
Unnamed Ag-Au Prospect (Unnamed Adit)
Unnamed Au Prospect (Unnamed Adits And Shaft)
Unnamed Au-Pb Prospect (Unnamed Adit/trench)
Unnamed Copper Prospect (23)
Webb Peak
Willow Spring Canyon

Latitude: 32°40'54"N
Longitude: 109°54'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.681666666667,-109.90777777778

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.

Allophane	Autunite	Baryte	Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote
Fluorite	Hexahydrite	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt
Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite

Autunite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Beryl ()*	Bianchite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Hematite ()*	Johannsenite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Neotocite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Uranophane-α ()*

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: Al Ba Be C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mn O P Pb S Si U W Zn

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Autunite Baryte Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote
Fluorite Hexahydrite Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt
Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	331	33.9	1	139257	1272
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	331	33.9	1	139258	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	331	33.9	3	139248,139249,139253	11547
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	331	33.9	1	139267	4286
Bianchite ()*	Hexahydrite	Zn(SO₄)·6H₂O	331	33.9	1	139275	40
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	331	33.9	2	139237,139253	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	331	33.9	4	139238,139258,139271,139273	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	331	24.05	0		8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	331	33.9	4	139248,139249,139253,139257	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	331	33.9	4	139238,139258,139270,139275	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	331	33.9	1	139257	14640
Johannsenite ()*	Pyroxene	CaMnSi₂O₆	331	33.9	1	139238	73
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	331	33.9	2	139258,139271	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	331	33.9	1	139237	17380
Neotocite ()*	Allophane	(Mn,Fe)SiO₃·H₂O (?)	331	33.9	1	139238	186
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	331	33.9	2	139258,139270	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	331	33.9	1	139240	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	331	33.9	1	139275	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	331	33.9	1	139237	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	331	33.9	2	139238,139275	21482
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	331	33.9	1	139257	890

4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Sample Num	Age from other Locality	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference ID
sedznpb-00443	56	33.9	Eocene?				Yes	29785	Aravaipa District, Graham Co., Arizona, USA	Aravaipa	Singer et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009-1252
Giersdorf_00000339	331	319	325±6	K-Ar	K-Ar age partially reset by some magmatic event	UAKA-60-12		31266	Pinaleño Mts, Aravaipa District, Graham Co., Arizona, USA	Pinaleño Mts.	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)	AGSD12_201
Giersdorf_00000387	29	27.6	28.3±0.7	K-Ar		Gr-My-1		31266	Pinaleño Mts, Aravaipa District, Graham Co., Arizona, USA	Pinaleño Mountains	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)	AGSD12_201
Giersdorf_00000394	25.25	24.05	24.65±0.6	K-Ar		UAKA-74-129		31266	Pinaleño Mts, Aravaipa District, Graham Co., Arizona, USA	Pinaleño Mountains	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)	AGSD12_201

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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