Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
North Battle Mountain District, Lander Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36880
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36880.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "North Battle Mountain District, Lander Co., Nevada, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Cutler Mine
Rimrock Mine
Snowstorm Mine (Mountain View Mine)
Unnamed Occurrences

Latitude: 40°43'0"N
Longitude: 116°51'2"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.716666666667,-116.85055555556

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.

Allophane	Andalusite	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Descloizite	Litidionite	Malachite	None
Not in a structural group	Philipsburgite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt

Adamite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chlorargyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*	Kipushite ()*
Libethenite ()*	Litidionite ()*	Malachite ()*	Mottramite ()*	Pseudomalachite ()*
Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rosasite ()*	Scholzite ()*	Stibiconite ()*
Zincolibethenite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cl Cu F H K Na O P Pb S Sb Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Andalusite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Descloizite Litidionite Malachite None
Not in a structural group Philipsburgite Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Adamite ()*	Andalusite	Zn₂(AsO₄)(OH)	1	238149	254
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	238149	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	238147,238148,238151	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	238149	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	238149	4979
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	238149	1382
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	238150	3531
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	238149	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	238149	24243
Kipushite ()*	Philipsburgite	Cu₆(PO₄)₂(OH)₆·H₂O	1	238149	8
Libethenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(PO₄)(OH)	1	238149	234
Litidionite ()*	Litidionite	KNaCuSi₄O₁₀	1	238150	2
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	238149	12537
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	1	238149	362
Pseudomalachite ()*	None	Cu₅(PO₄)₂(OH)₄	1	238149	369
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	238149	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	238149	61156
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	238149	454
Scholzite ()*	None	CaZn₂(PO₄)₂·2H₂O	1	238149	20
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	1	238149	446
Zincolibethenite ()*	Andalusite	CuZn(PO₄)(OH)	1	238149	11

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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