Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Shady Run District, Churchill Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36525
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36525.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Shady Run District, Churchill Co., Nevada, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Black Diamond Iron (Black Diamond; Black Hawk Claims; IXL Con; IXL Extention; Twin Sister; Black Prince; Twin Sister No. 2)
Fondaway Canyon Mine (Paperweight-Half Moon; Hamburger Hill)
Fondaway Canyon Placer
Gold Hill Mine (Claimview Mine)
Quick-Tung Quicksilver Mine
Shady Run Canyon
Unnamed Prospect (1)

Latitude: 39°47'32"N
Longitude: 118°12'54"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.792222222222,-118.215

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.

Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Scheelite	Sphalerite
Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Gold ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stibnite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Au C Ca Cu Fe Hg O S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Scheelite Sphalerite
Stibnite Tetrahedrite

13 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	234908	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	234910,234915	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	234908	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	3	234908,234909,234915	2600
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3	234908,234909,234913	30554
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	234908,234909,234915	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	234908	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	234908,234909,234910,234915	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	4	234908,234909,234910,234915	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	234908	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	4	234908,234909,234910,234915	3418
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	234908	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	234908	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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