Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Palmetto District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36752
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36752.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Palmetto District, Esmeralda Co., Nevada, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Ace In The Hole Mine
Blue Dick Mine
Crystal White Mine
Highway Mine
Lida Talc Mine
Mattmueller Mine
McNamara Mine
Nevada No. 1 Mine
Palmetto Mine
Palmetto Prospect
Paymaster Mine
Shaw Mine (Blue Star Mine)
White Horse Mine

Latitude: 37°29'29"N
Longitude: 117°40'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.491388888889,-117.68083333333

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.

Amphibole	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group
Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Talc

Baryte ()*	Bromargyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Dolomite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rosasite ()*	Talc ()*	Tremolite ()*	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: Ag Al Au Ba Br C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Copper Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group
Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Talc

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	236810,236815	11547
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	1	236817	227
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	236811,236814,236816,236817,236820	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	236815	4979
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	236816	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	236810,236815	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	236810,236819	30554
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	236817	1689
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	236815	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	236809,236818,236821	17380
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	9	236809,236810,236811,236813,236815,236816,236818,236820,236821	61156
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	236817	454
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	5	236811,236812,236813,236816,236820	3337
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	236813	2562
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	236815	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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