Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Antelope Springs District, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 6.4
Youngest recorded age at locality: 5.8

mindat Locality ID: 36727
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36727.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Antelope Springs District, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 21
Child Localities:
Adamson Property (Midas Mine)
Alpine Mine
Antimony Star Mine
Bohannon Mine
Cervantite Mine
Crawford Prospect
Eastern Star Mine
Empire Mine
Hollywood Mine
Juniper Mine (Nevada Quicksilver Mine)
Limestone Prospect (1)
Limestone Prospect (2)
Lori Mine
Montgomery Mine
Pershing Mine (Pershing Quicksilver Mne)
Red Bird Mine
Relief Canyon
Relief Mine (Batavia And Pacific Mine)
Silver Dike Mine
Unnamed Limestone Prospect
Vulture Mine

Latitude: 40°10'14"N
Longitude: 118°10'2"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.170555555556,-118.16722222222

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	Adelite	Amorphous	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay
Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Dadsonite	Diaspore	Fluorite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Meneghinite	Mica
Minium	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Arsendescloizite ()*
Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bindheimite ()*	Boulangerite ()*
Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Calomel ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Covellite ()*	Dadsonite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Edgarbaileyite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kermesite ()*	Livingstonite ()*
Malachite ()*	Meneghinite ()*	Mercury ()*	Metacinnabar ()*	Minium ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Robinsonite ()*	Rosasite ()*	Schuetteite ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stibiconite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Vanadinite ()*

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 C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Hg K Mg Mo O Pb S Sb Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al C Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Adelite Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Baryte Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay
Copper Corundum Covellite Dadsonite Diaspore Fluorite Kaolinite Malachite Meneghinite Mica
Minium Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

50 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	6.4	5.8	0		2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	6.4	5.8	0		2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	6.4	5.8	2	240454,240455	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	6.4	5.8	1	240456	3250
Arsendescloizite ()*	Adelite	PbZn(AsO₄)(OH)	6.4	5.8	1	240456	20
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	6.4	5.8	1	240456	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	6.4	5.8	0		5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	6.4	5.8	2	240455,240456	11547
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	6.4	5.8	1	240456	450
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	6.4	5.8	1	240456	843
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	6.4	5.8	0		1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6.4	5.8	3	240441,240450,240456	27770
Calomel ()*	None	HgCl	6.4	5.8	1	240456	91
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	6.4	5.8	1	240456	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	6.4	5.8	0		27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	6.4	5.8	11	240441,240442,240443,240446,240447,240450,240453,240454,240455,240456,240463	2600
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	6.4	5.8	0		4165
Dadsonite ()*	Dadsonite	Pb₂₃Sb₂₅S₆₀Cl	6.4	5.8	1	240456	15
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	6.4	5.8	1	240455	9895
Edgarbaileyite ()*	None	Hg¹⁺₆Si₂O₇	6.4	5.8	1	240456	6
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	6.4	5.8	2	240444,240459	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	6.4	5.8	0		24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	6.4	5.8	1	240456	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	6.4	5.8	2	240459,240460	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	6.4	5.8	1	240459	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	6.4	5.8	1	240456	1689
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	6.4	5.8	1	240456	784
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	6.4	5.8	0		5591
Kermesite ()*	None	Sb₂OS₂	6.4	5.8	2	240449,240456	230
Livingstonite ()*	None	HgSb₄S₆(S)₂	6.4	5.8	1	240441	24
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	6.4	5.8	0		12537
Meneghinite ()*	Meneghinite	Pb₁₃CuSb₇S₂₄	6.4	5.8	1	240456	158
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	6.4	5.8	1	240456	397
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	6.4	5.8	1	240456	255
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄	6.4	5.8	1	240456	247
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	6.4	5.8	1	240448	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	6.4	5.8	1	240459	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	6.4	5.8	1	240456	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6.4	5.8	2	240456,240459	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6.4	5.8	7	240445,240449,240454,240456,240458,240459,240460	61156
Robinsonite ()*	None	Pb₄Sb₆S₁₃	6.4	5.8	1	240456	39
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	6.4	5.8	1	240456	454
Schuetteite ()*	None	Hg₃O₂(SO₄)	0	0	1	240456	21
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	6.4	5.8	1	240460	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	6.4	5.8	1	240456	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	6.4	5.8	1	240456	21482
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	6.4	5.8	1	240449	446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	6.4	5.8	6	240443,240445,240449,240450,240454,240456	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	6.4	5.8	0		5317
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	6.4	5.8	1	240456	605

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Hg-00091	6.4	5.8		K-Ar								Calomel, Cinnabar, Edgarbaileyite, Livingstonite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Schuetteite	Hg	36727	Antelope Springs District, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA		Noble et al. (1988); Coolbaugh et al. (2005)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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