Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Poverty Peak District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36848
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36848.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Poverty Peak District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Cahill Mine
George And Charlie Mine
Hapgood Mine (Grayson Group)
Holt Mine
King Group
Prentiss Mine
Snow Drift Mine
Snowshoe Mine
Turillis Mine
Wholey Mine (Long Horn Group)

Latitude: 41°20'49"N
Longitude: 117°27'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.346944444444,-117.45638888889

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.

Calcite	Gypsum	None	Quartz	Stibnite

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: C Ca Cl H Hg O S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Gypsum None Quartz Stibnite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Calomel ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Eglestonite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Mercury ()*	Montroydite ()*	Quartz ()*	Stibnite ()*	Terlinguaite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	237467,237469,237472,237473,237475	27770
Calomel ()*	None	HgCl	2	237467,237473	91
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	8	237467,237469,237470,237472,237473,237474,237475,237476	2600
Eglestonite ()*	None	([Hg¹⁺]₂)₃OCl₃(OH)	2	237467,237473	36
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	237467,237469	6890
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	2	237467,237473	397
Montroydite ()*	None	HgO	1	237467	29
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	237467,237469,237470,237472,237473,237474,237475	61156
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	237467	3418
Terlinguaite ()*	None	Hg₂OCl	2	237467,237473	22

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060612	Cahill Mine, Poverty Peak District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA	https://rruff.info/R060612

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