Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Black Canyon District, Wickenburg Mts, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1550
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1450

mindat Locality ID: 31304
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-31304.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Black Canyon District, Wickenburg Mts, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA": 51
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 41

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Agua Fria River (stream)
American Flag Mine (Brooks Mine; Old Brooks Mine)
Black Canyon
Black Canyon Area
Black Canyon City
Bumble Bee
Bumble Bee Placers Prospect
Cleator
Cleator - South Of
Cutter Mine (Cutter Claim)
D.J.H. Mine
Iron Age Mine
Sonora Mine
Turkey Creek Station
Wickenburg Mine
Zika Mine

Latitude: 34°13'2"N
Longitude: 112°11'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.217222222222,-112.19638888889

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.

Andalusite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Mica
Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Staurolite
Tetrahedrite

Andalusite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chlorargyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Staurolite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg Mo O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Mica
Molybdenite Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Staurolite
Tetrahedrite

27 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
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1550	1450	1	149139	1310
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂			3	149112,149117,149122	3092
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	149117	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1550	1450	3	149112,149141,149152	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1550	1450	7	149109,149117,149119,149122,149141,149152,149153	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl			2	149112,149113	1382
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂			1	149117	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	149152	8173
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	1550	1450	3	149139,149140,149145	345
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1550	1450	8	149109,149112,149117,149120,149123,149141,149148,149153	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1550	1450	16	149108,149109,149111,149115,149119,149126,149128,149129,149130,149132,149133,149137,149141,149153,149157,149158	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			4	149122,149125,149126,149155	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1550	1450	1	149139	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			7	149111,149122,149125,149126,149152,149155,149156	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1550	1450	3	149139,149140,149145	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			1	149117	17380
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃			2	149112,149113	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃			1	149112	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1550	1450	10	149109,149112,149117,149119,149120,149122,149133,149141,149152,149153	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			1	149152	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1550	1450	6	149111,149123,149145,149148,149157,149158	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			2	149117,149122	5614
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)			4	149109,149117,149147,149153	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			3	149112,149113,149153	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1550	1450	7	149112,149117,149119,149123,149141,149148,149153	21482
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	1550	1450	1	149139	978
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			1	149117	5317

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Giersdorf_00000310	Precambrian basement in Prescott area

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Giersdorf_00000310	1550	1450	1500±50	K-Ar				UAKA-60-04				Muscovite		3395	Cleator Area, Cleator, Black Canyon District, Wickenburg Mts, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA	Cleator area	Shafiqullah et al. (1980)		AGSD12_201

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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