Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Alpine District, Churchill Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36433
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36433.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Alpine District, Churchill Co., Nevada, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Clan Alpine Mine (Alpine Mine)
Healy Prospect
Nevada Gold Group
Nevada Lincoln Mine (Kinney)
Scott Prospect
Shoshone Mine (Santa Rosa Mine)
Unnamed Prospect
Williams Mine
Williams Prospect
Windlass Mine

Latitude: 39°34'57"N
Longitude: 117°47'54"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.5825,-117.79833333333

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.

Acanthite	Calcite	Copper	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stibnite
Tetrahedrite	Turquoise

Acanthite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cervantite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Turquoise ()*

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 Au C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mo O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: O S Sb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Calcite Copper Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stibnite
Tetrahedrite Turquoise

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	3	234637,234643,234645	2793
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	234638	27770
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	0		352
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	4	234637,234638,234643,234645	1382
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	234638	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	234637,234638,234643,234645	30554
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	234640	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	234638,234643	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	234637,234638,234643,234645	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	234638	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	234638	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	0		3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	234638	5317
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	234641	484

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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