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Locality Name:
Buckeye Vein Group, Castle Dome Mine Group, Kofa Game Range, Castle Dome District, Castle Dome Mts, Yuma Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 33337
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-33337.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Buckeye Vein Group, Castle Dome Mine Group, Kofa Game Range, Castle Dome District, Castle Dome Mts, Yuma Co., Arizona, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Big Dome Mine (Big Dome Claim; Big Dome Prospect; Promontorio Group; Senora; Big Dome-Dusty No. 4 Claim)
Castle Dome Mine (Castle Dome Claim)
Hull Mine Group (Rialto Mine Group; Hull Group Of Claims; Rialto Claims)
Lady Edith Mine (Lady Edith Claim; Lady Edith And Yuma-New Chance No. 4 Claim; Norma Mine)
New Dil Mine (New Dil Claim; New Dil-New Chance No. 1 Claim; Hopkins Claim; Hopkins Mine)
Yuma Claim

Latitude: 33°2'31"N
Longitude: 114°10'17"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.041944444444,-114.17138888889
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: Al As Ba C Ca Cl F Fe H K Mo O P Pb S Si V Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C H O Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ApatiteAragoniteBaryteCalciteClayCorundumFluoriteMicaNonePhenakite
QuartzRocksaltScheelite

17 IMA Minerals at location:
Anglesite  (*)Aragonite  (*)Baryte  (*)Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)
Fluorite  (*)Galena  (*)Hematite  (*)Hydrozincite  (*)Mimetite  (*)
Muscovite  (*)Pyromorphite  (*)Quartz  (*)Smithsonite  (*)Vanadinite  (*)
Willemite  (*)Wulfenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite  (*)BarytePb(SO4)3149256,149258,1492602734
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)11492603250
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)2149258,14926011547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)5149258,149259,149260,149261,14926227770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)3149256,149258,1492604979
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF27149256,149257,149258,149259,149260,149261,1492629617
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS6149256,149258,149259,149260,149261,14926224243
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3114926014640
Hydrozincite  (*)NoneZn5(CO3)2(OH)601066
Mimetite  (*)ApatitePb5(AsO4)3Cl5149258,149259,149260,149261,1492621107
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)25149258,149259,149260,149261,14926217380
Pyromorphite  (*)ApatitePb5(PO4)3Cl11492591725
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2114926061156
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)02473
Vanadinite  (*)ApatitePb5(VO4)3Cl5149258,149259,149260,149261,149262605
Willemite  (*)PhenakiteZn2SiO42149257,149260303
Wulfenite  (*)ScheelitePbMoO45149258,149259,149260,149261,1492621655


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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