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

mindat Locality ID: 36512
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36512.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Fairview District, Churchill Co., Nevada, USA": 39
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 34

Number of Child Localities: 29
Child Localities:
Aztec Shaft
Bell Mountain Mine
Buff Claims (Buff Claims #1-65)
Centurion Prospect (NBMG Sample Sites 3917; 3918; Centurion Claims; Wyoming Shaft)
Consadao Shaft
Dromedary Hump Mine (Golden Boulder Property)
Eagle Shaft
Eagleville Mine
Fairview Sec. 7 Patent (Nevada Fairview; Snyder Mine; Fairview; Fairview Sec.7 Patent)
Fairview Silver Mine
Fred Branch Property
Gold Bug Property
Grand Central Mine
Hidden Treasure Mine
Jelinek Mine (Big Ledge Mine)
Jet Prospect
Kimberly Group (Fairview Kimberly Mining Co. Property)
Lucky Four Claims
Midnight Mine
Mizpah Mine (Austrian Mine)
Nevada Crown Mine (Gold Crown; Port And Sampson)
Nevada Fairview Mine (Synder Mine; Gold Coin Mine)
Nevada Hills Mine
New Yorker Group (Fairview Central Mining Company Property)
Pyramid Shaft
Red Rock Mines Group (Fairview Red Rock Mines Company Property)
Rex Prospect
Slate Mine (Midday Mine; Midnight Mine)
Torix Claim (NBMG Sample Site 3808)

Latitude: 39°11'57"N
Longitude: 118°10'50"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.199166666667,-118.18055555556

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	Allophane	Alunite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper
Covellite	Diaspore	Epidote	Epsomite	Feldspar	Fluorite	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Linarite	Malachite
Mica	Molybdenite	None	Polybasite	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Rutile
Scheelite	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	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 As Au Ba Br C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Hg K Mg Mn Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Ca Cu Fe K Mg Na O S Sb Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Alunite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper
Covellite Diaspore Epidote Epsomite Feldspar Fluorite Gypsum Kaolinite Linarite Malachite
Mica Molybdenite None Polybasite Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt Rutile
Scheelite Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Tetrahedrite Turquoise

53 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Albite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Augite ()*	Baryte ()*
Bornite ()*	Bromargyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Covellite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Epsomite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hisingerite ()*	Jarosite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Linarite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Paragonite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Powellite ()*
Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rhodochrosite ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Sanidine ()*	Scheelite ()*	Siderite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tenorite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Turquoise ()*	Zoisite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	11	234755,234759,234763,234765,234766,234767,234769,234776,234778,234780,234781	2793
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	0		8803
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	234763	3250
Augite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Mg,Fe)₂Si₂O₆	0		2060
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	234755,234763	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	234764	5516
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	1	234763	227
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	9	234763,234769,234770,234771,234776,234778,234780,234781,234789	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	234763	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	234763	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	234774,234781,234789,234790	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	6	234755,234763,234766,234769,234776,234781	1382
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	234763	3531
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	2	234766,234768	2600
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	234758,234759	4165
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	234763	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	234763,234789	8173
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	234764	484
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	234755,234763	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5	234764,234774,234781,234789,234790	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	2	234763,234772	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	234759,234761,234763,234769,234776,234777,234781	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	234763	6890
Hisingerite ()*	Kaolinite Clay	Fe₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄·2H₂O	1	234763	144
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	234763	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	234763,234776	5591
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	2	234764,234781	987
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	0		14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	234763	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	234774	5800
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	234755	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	234763	17380
Paragonite ()*	Mica Clay	NaAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	234763	247
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	0		716
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	2	234775,234791	494
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	1	234781	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	234763	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	234757,234777,234778,234779	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	3	234763,234776,234781	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	21	234757,234759,234760,234763,234765,234766,234767,234769,234770,234771,234772,234776,234777,234778,234780,234781,234783,234785,234786,234789,234790	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	4	234755,234760,234763,234781	1711
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	2	234763,234781	969
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	0		598
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	3	234775,234789,234791	4894
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	234763	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	4	234755,234763,234776,234781	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	234763,234781,234789,234790	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	5	234763,234767,234769,234776,234781	586
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	234763	3418
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	234763	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	4	234763,234781,234789,234790	5317
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	234763	484
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	234763	1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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