Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Old Soldier Mine (Lost Soldier Mine), Churchill District, Lyon Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36926
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36926.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Old Soldier Mine (Lost Soldier Mine), Churchill District, Lyon Co., Nevada, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Atacamite	Baryte	Brochantite	Caledonite	Chalcopyrite	Descloizite	Linarite	Malachite
Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite

Anglesite ()*	Atacamite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Caledonite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Descloizite ()*	Galena ()*	Linarite ()*
Malachite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Paratacamite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	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: As C Cl Cu Fe H Mo O P Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As C Cl Cu Fe H Mo O P Pb S Si V Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Atacamite Baryte Brochantite Caledonite Chalcopyrite Descloizite Linarite Malachite
Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2734
Atacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₂Cl(OH)₃	544
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1633
Caledonite ()*	Caledonite	Cu₂Pb₅(SO₄)₃(CO₃)(OH)₆	359
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2970
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	378
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	12537
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1107
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	5800
Paratacamite ()*	Atacamite	Cu₃(Cu,Zn)Cl₂(OH)₆	158
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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