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Locality Name:
Searchlight District, Clark Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36543
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36543.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Searchlight District, Clark Co., Nevada, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 21
Child Localities:
Bay City Group
Big Casino Mine (Monte Carlo Mine)
Blossom Mine
Boston Mine
Chief Of The Hills Mine
Cyrus Noble Mine
Good Hope Mine (Phoenix Mine)
J. E. T. Mine
Moonbeam Claim
New Era Mine
Oakland Group
Pompeii Mine
Santa Fe Mine
Search Light Insulation Prod. Mine (Perlite Ridge Mine; Perlite Group; Search Insulation Products Mine)
Searchlight Deposit
Searchlight M & M Mine
Searchlight Parallel Mine
Southern Nevada Mine (Spokane Mine)
Sunrise Claim
Virginian Prospect
White Cloud Claim (Holzak Claims; White Cloud-Dark Cloud Claims)

Latitude: 35°28'55"N
Longitude: 114°54'10"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.481944444444,-114.90277777778

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.

Allophane	Apatite	Aragonite	Beryl	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper
Corundum	Descloizite	Epidote	Fornacite	Linarite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt
Scheelite	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel

Azurite ()*	Beryl ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cuprite ()*	Descloizite ()*
Epidote ()*	Fornacite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Leadhillite ()*	Linarite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Mottramite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Vanadinite ()*
Wulfenite ()*

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 Au Be C Ca Cl Cr Cu Fe H Mg Mo Na O Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Ca Cr Cu Fe H Mg Na O Pb Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Apatite Aragonite Beryl Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper
Corundum Descloizite Epidote Fornacite Linarite Malachite None Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt
Scheelite Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	3	235286,235287,235298	5509
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	3	235291,235303,235305	4286
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	2	235297,235299	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	235285,235289,235297,235298	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	7	235286,235287,235288,235289,235297,235298,235299	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	4	235286,235287,235297,235299	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	235284,235297,235298,235299	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	6	235286,235287,235288,235289,235298,235299	3531
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	5	235288,235289,235297,235298,235299	2970
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	1	235299	378
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		8173
Fornacite ()*	Fornacite	CuPb₂(CrO₄)(AsO₄)(OH)	0		85
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	6	235284,235288,235289,235297,235298,235299	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	235285,235288,235289,235297,235298,235299,235304	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	6	235285,235288,235289,235297,235298,235299	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	2	235298,235299	1689
Leadhillite ()*	None	Pb₄(SO₄)(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	3	235289,235298,235299	265
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	235299	987
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	0		14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	5	235286,235287,235297,235298,235299	12537
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	0		1508
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	2	235298,235299	362
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	12	235283,235284,235285,235286,235287,235289,235293,235294,235297,235298,235299,235300	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	235284,235297	21482
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	2	235297,235299	605
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	5	235288,235289,235297,235298,235299	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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