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Locality Name:
Tiptop Mine Group (Tiptop Camp Prospects/mines), Tiptop Mountain, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont District, Santa Rita Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 62
Youngest recorded age at locality: 56

mindat Locality ID: 36154
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36154.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tiptop Mine Group (Tiptop Camp Prospects/mines), Tiptop Mountain, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont District, Santa Rita Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USA": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
America Prospect
Bulldozer Hill
Copper Belt Mine
Copper Duke Hill
King Solomon Prospect
Little Helvetia Mine
Mount Leon Mine
Noonday Prospect
Queen Of Sheba Mine (Queen Of Sheba And Norman Queen Mines)
Tiptop Mine

Latitude: 31°52'13"N
Longitude: 110°47'38"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.870277777778,-110.79388888889

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 C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mo O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllophaneAmorphousChalcopyriteClinozoisiteCopperCorundumEpidoteMalachiteMolybdeniteNone
Not in a structural groupPyritePyroxeneQuartzSpinel

17 IMA Minerals at location:
Azurite  (*)Bornite  (*)Chalcocite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chrysocolla  (*)
Copper  (*)Cuprite  (*)Diopside  (*)Epidote  (*)Hematite  (*)
Magnetite  (*)Malachite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Opal  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Tenorite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)262563144370,144373,1443795509
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS4625611443795516
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S625611443795707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS262562144377,14437927198
Chrysocolla  (*)Allophane(Cu2-xAlx)H2-xSi2O5(OH)4·nH2O62563144370,144373,1443793531
Copper  (*)CopperCu625611443703846
Cuprite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu2O625611443792970
Diopside  (*)PyroxeneCaMgSi2O6625611443794135
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)625611443708173
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O362562144377,14437914640
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O46256114437914899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)262563144370,144373,14437912537
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS2625611443795800
Opal  (*)AmorphousSiO2·nH2O625611443692994
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS262562144377,14437939462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO26256114436961156
Tenorite  (*)NoneCuO625611443701101



1 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
PorphCu-00109625656-62     YesBornite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Diopside, Epidote, Galena, Gold, Magnetite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite, WollastoniteCu49290Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont District, Santa Rita Mts, Pima Co., Arizona, USAHelvetiaSinger et al. (2008) USGSOFR2008_1155 


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