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Locality Name:
Marietta District, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 37023
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-37023.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Marietta District, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 24
Child Localities:
4-D Prospect
Annet Group
Badger Mine (Woodchuck Mine [?])
Birdsong Mine
Black Hawk Mine
Blue Boy Claim
Defender Mine
Dough God Mine
Endowment Mine
Flying Cloud Mine (Oddie And Giovanni; Babcock)
Garfield Flat
Lucky Horseshoe Prospect
Marietta Claim
Mineral Jackpot Prospect
Pine Crow Mine
Pink Lady Claims
Red Stone Nos. 1 - 6 Mine (Neva-Cal Mining Enterprise Mine)
Rip Van Winkle Mine
Rutty Group
Silver Gulch Mine
Silver Moon 36 Mine
Silver State Claim
Sunday Claims
Tungsten Dyke Group

Latitude: 38°17'26"N
Longitude: 118°30'34"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.290555555556,-118.50944444444

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Beryl	Bismutite	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Descloizite	Fluorite
Garnet	Linarite	Malachite	Meta-autunite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz
Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Alunite ()*	Andradite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Beryl ()*	Bismutite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Cuprosklodowskite ()*	Descloizite ()*	Diopside ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Kasolite ()*	Linarite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*	Metatorbernite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Uranophane-β ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Ulexite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*	Weeksite ()*	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: Al Au B Ba Be Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si U V W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Beryl Bismutite Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Descloizite Fluorite
Garnet Linarite Malachite Meta-autunite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz
Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite

35 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	239264	966
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	2	239257,239273	1534
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	239257	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	239262	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	239255,239273	11547
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1	239268	4286
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	1	239268	716
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	239273	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	239254	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	3	239257,239262,239271	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	239256,239262	27198
Cuprosklodowskite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·6H₂O	1	239276	58
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	1	239254	378
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	239263	4135
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	239261	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	7	239254,239256,239257,239258,239262,239271,239273	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	239272,239277	30554
Kasolite ()*	None	Pb(UO₂)(SiO₄)·H₂O	3	239254,239265,239275	198
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	239273	987
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	239267	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	239254,239262	12537
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	3	239259,239265,239266	388
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	2	239265,239276	443
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	239267	5800
Uranophane-β ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	239254	144
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	239256,239262,239267	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	239254,239257,239263,239268,239274,239277	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	5	239260,239261,239263,239268,239277	4894
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	239262	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	239256,239262	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	239273	5317
Ulexite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₆(OH)₆·5H₂O	1	239254	160
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	3	239254,239259,239266	890
Weeksite ()*	None	(K)₂(UO₂)₂(Si₅O₁₃)·4H₂O	1	239254	42
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	239254	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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