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Locality Name:
Barcelona District (Spanish Belt District), Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 92.4
Youngest recorded age at locality: 19.8

mindat Locality ID: 37042
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-37042.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Barcelona District (Spanish Belt District), Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Barcelona Mine (Spanish Belt Mine)
Flower Antimony Mine (Rye Claim Group; Fiorite; Logan; Bar; Duane Group; Kernick Divide Mining Co.; Kernick Duane; NBMG Sample Site #2035; Flower Mine)
Flower Mercury Mine (Duane Group; Kernick Divide Mining Co; Kernick - Duane; Flower - Kernick; Fiorite Group; Logan Bar; William Duane Mine; Bar Group; Spanish Belt Group; NBMG Sample Site No. 2034; Flower Mine; Wm. Duane Mine; Kernick Mining Co.)
Flower Mercury Placer Ground (Nevada Mint And Bar Claim Group; Ulla Claim Group; Flower Placer; Mercury Placer)
Hooper Mine
Perkins Prospects (old Washington Mine?)
San Pedro Shaft
Silver Reef Prospect
South Barcelona Mine
Van Ness Mine
War Eagle Group
Warren Gold Mine
Warren Prospect (F & R No. 1 Claim)

Latitude: 38°39'29"N
Longitude: 116°56'18"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.658055555556,-116.93833333333

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.

Acanthite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Fluorite	Kaolinite	Malachite
Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Epidote ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Kaolinite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Powellite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
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: Ag Al Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H Hg Mn Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Fluorite Kaolinite Malachite
Molybdenite Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	27	19.8	1	240216	2793
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	27	19.8	1	240211	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	27	19.8	1	240214	5516
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27	19.8	3	240209,240214,240219	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	92.4	19.8	5	240209,240211,240212,240215,240218	2600
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	27	19.8	1	240221	8173
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	27	19.8	1	240221	345
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	27	19.8	2	240209,240214	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	27	19.8	2	240209,240215	24243
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	92.4	75.6	1	240218	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	27	19.8	1	240214	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	27	19.8	1	240214	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	27	19.8	4	240209,240214,240215,240221	5800
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	27	19.8	1	240221	494
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	27	19.8	7	240209,240214,240215,240216,240219,240220,240221	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	27	19.8	1	240214	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	92.4	19.8	7	240209,240210,240214,240215,240216,240218,240221	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	27	19.8	1	240209	1711
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	92.4	19.8	2	240218,240221	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	27	19.8	1	240209	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	27	19.8	3	240210,240211,240212	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	27	19.8	3	240209,240214,240215	5317

4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Sample Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
Kristen000222	27	24.8	25.9±1.1	fission track	zircon	DRS-74-266	Yes	Zircon	261556	Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA	Toquima Range	Shawe et al. (1986)	10.2113/gsecongeo.81.2.388	EG81_388
Kristen000240	23.4	21.4	22.4±1	fission track	zircon	DRS-80-60	Yes	Zircon	261556	Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA	Toquima Range	Shawe et al. (1986)	10.2113/gsecongeo.81.2.388	EG81_388
Kristen000241	24.6	19.8	22.2±2.4	fission track	apatite	DRS-80-60	Yes		261556	Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA	Toquima Range	Shawe et al. (1986)	10.2113/gsecongeo.81.2.388	EG81_388
NAVDAT-118473	92.4	75.6	84±8.4			118473			40044	Van Ness Mine, Barcelona District (Spanish Belt District), Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

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