Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Red Butte District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36850
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36850.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Red Butte District, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Low Copper Prospect
Low Prospect
Prodigal Mine
Rattlesnake Canyon Prospect
Red Butte Area Prospects
Red Butte Mine
Snowdrift Mine

Latitude: 41°6'5"N
Longitude: 118°34'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.101388888889,-118.58305555556

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.

Arsenopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt
Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Copper ()*
Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Mercury ()*	Nontronite ()*	Quartz ()*	Stibnite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 C Cu Fe H Hg Na O Pb S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Cu O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Covellite Malachite None Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt
Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Stibnite Tetrahedrite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	237499	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	237493,237495	5509
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	237493	5707
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	237496	2600
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	0		3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	0		4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	0		2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	237495	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	237494	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	237494	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	237495	12537
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	1	237496	397
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	237499	471
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	237493,237499	61156
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	237499	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	237493,237495	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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