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Locality Name:
Monte Cristo, Sultan District, Snohomish Co., Washington, USA


mindat Locality ID: 31597
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-31597.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Monte Cristo, Sultan District, Snohomish Co., Washington, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Florence Rae Mine (Rudebeck-Florence Rae Mine)
Iowa Mine (Mint Mine)
Sultan King Mine (Sultan Queen Mine; Hicks Mine)

Latitude: 47°57'59"N
Longitude: 121°29'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.966388888889,-121.48527777778
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: As C Ca Cr Cu Fe H Mo Ni O Pb S Si W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenopyriteCalciteChalcopyriteCorundumMalachiteMarcasiteMolybdeniteNickelineNonePentlandite
PyriteQuartzRocksaltScheeliteSphaleriteSpinel

18 IMA Minerals at location:
Arsenopyrite  (*)Bornite  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chromite  (*)
Galena  (*)Hematite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Malachite  (*)Marcasite  (*)
Molybdenite  (*)Pentlandite  (*)Powellite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS12858369052
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS412858355516
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)2285834,28583527770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS23285834,285835,28583627198
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O412858343902
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS128583424243
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O32285834,28583614640
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O42285834,28583614899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2128583512537
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS212858365674
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS22285835,2858365800
Pentlandite  (*)Pentlandite(Ni,Fe)9S812858351512
Powellite  (*)ScheeliteCa(MoO4)1285835494
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23285834,285835,28583639462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S82285834,2858369056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO23285834,285835,28583661156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)2285834,2858354894
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS3285834,285835,28583621482


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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