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Locality Name:
Bottle Creek District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA


mindat Locality ID: 36832
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36832.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bottle Creek District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Baldwin Mine
Baldwin Mine (Blue Bottle Mine; Blue Bucket Mine)
Birthday Mine (Wootan Mine; Wootan And McCown Mine)
Blue Can Mine (Bottle Creek Mercury Mine; Tin Can Mine)
Buff Peak Prospect
McAdoo Mine (Bluebird Mine)
Niebuhr Mine (Sunset-Big Four Group)
Red Ore Mine
White Peaks Mine (Scossa Mine; Bottle Creek Mine)

Latitude: 41°21'41"N
Longitude: 118°19'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.361388888889,-118.325

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 C Ca F Fe H Hg K Mg Mo Na O P S Sb Si Th U Zn Zr 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: S Sb 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CalciteClayKaoliniteMeta-autuniteMolybdeniteNonePyriteQuartzSmectite-vermiculiteSphalerite
StibniteTopazZircon

14 IMA Minerals at location:
Calcite  (*)Cinnabar  (*)Kaolinite  (*)Meta-autunite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)
Montmorillonite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Stibnite  (*)
Thorite  (*)Topaz  (*)Weeksite  (*)Zircon  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)123726827770
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS8237261,237262,237263,237264,237266,237267,237268,2372692600
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)412372655591
Meta-autunite  (*)Meta-autuniteCa(UO2)2(PO4)2·6H2O1237265388
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS212372655800
Montmorillonite  (*)Clay Smectite-vermiculite(Na,Ca)0.3(Al,Mg)2Si4O10(OH)2·nH2O12372651508
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2123726539462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2123726561156
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS123726521482
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S303418
Thorite  (*)ZirconTh(SiO4)12372651006
Topaz  (*)TopazAl2SiO4F212372651476
Weeksite  (*)None(K)2(UO2)2(Si5O13)·4H2O123726542
Zircon  (*)ZirconZr(SiO4)12372655251



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