Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Gold Crater District, Nye Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 37065
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-37065.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gold Crater District, Nye Co., Nevada, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Pius Kaelin Mine
Unnamed Shaft
Unnamed Shaft (2)

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Enargite	Kaolinite	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Stannite	Wurtzite

Alunite ()*	Baryte ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Enargite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Iodargyrite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Kuramite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Scorodite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stannite ()*

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 Au Ba C Cu Fe H Hg I K O Pb S Si Sn Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Au Ba Cu Fe H Hg I K O S Si Sn Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Enargite Kaolinite None Pyrite Rocksalt
Sphalerite Stannite Wurtzite

16 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	0		966
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	239554	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	0		5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	0		2600
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	239556	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	239554,239555	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	0		30554
Iodargyrite ()*	Wurtzite	AgI	0		180
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	0		5591
Kuramite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃SnS₄	1	239556	12
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	239556	39462
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	0		1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	0		21482
Stannite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₂FeSnS₄	0		668

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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