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Locality Name:
Tybo District, Hot Creek Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 26.7
Youngest recorded age at locality: 26.7

mindat Locality ID: 37106
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-37106.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tybo District, Hot Creek Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA": 27
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 26

Number of Child Localities: 26
Child Localities:
A And B Mine
Break Mine
Bresnahan Prospect
Bunker Hill Mine
Dexter Mine
Dimick Mine
Gilmore Mine
Ker Prospect
Keystone Mine
Larsh Prospect
Lloyd Trickey Claim
Lucky Tramp Prospect
M And M Mine (Mercury Mountain Mine)
Max-Dense Corp. Properties
Mountain View Mine
Ophir Mine
Outlook Prospect [?]
Page Mine (Page Brothers Property; Hot Creek Mine)
Rattlesnake Mine
Rescue Prospect
Swarbrick Prospect
Tybo
Tybo Mine (Treadwell-Yukon Mine; 2 G Shaft; Hales Shaft)
Uncle Sam Claims
Warm Springs
Warm Springs Turquoise Prospect

Latitude: 38°16'23"N
Longitude: 116°24'6"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.273055555556,-116.40166666667

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.

Alunite	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper
Epidote	Kaolinite	Malachite	Marcasite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Phosphosiderite	Polybasite	Pyrite
Pyrochlore	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetradymite	Tetrahedrite	Turquoise

Alabandite ()*	Aleksite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*
Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Calomel ()*
Cerussite ()*	Cervantite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Crandallite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Galena ()*
Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Kermesite ()*	Livingstonite ()*	Malachite ()*
Manganite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Mercury ()*	Metacinnabar ()*	Metavariscite ()*
Polybasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stetefeldtite ()*	Stibiconite ()*	Stibnite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Todorokite ()*	Turquoise ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Hg K Mg Mn Na O P Pb S Sb Si Sr Te Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al Ba C Ca H K Mg Mn Na O S Sb Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper
Epidote Kaolinite Malachite Marcasite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Phosphosiderite Polybasite Pyrite
Pyrochlore Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Stibnite Tetradymite Tetrahedrite Turquoise

43 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
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	26.7	26.7	0		312
Aleksite ()*	Tetradymite	PbBi₂Te₂S₂	26.7	26.7	1	239638	28
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	26.7	26.7	2	239627,239638	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	26.7	26.7	1	239640	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	26.7	26.7	2	239634,239638	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	26.7	26.7	1	239625	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	26.7	26.7	4	239628,239638,239640,239641	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	26.7	26.7	1	239623	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	26.7	26.7	3	239617,239635,239638	27770
Calomel ()*	None	HgCl	26.7	26.7	1	239615	91
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	26.7	26.7	2	239627,239638	4979
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	26.7	26.7	1	239632	352
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	26.7	26.7	2	239623,239638	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	26.7	26.7	1	239629	1382
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	26.7	26.7	2	239615,239627	2600
Crandallite ()*	Alunite	CaAl₃(PO₄)(PO₃OH)(OH)₆	26.7	26.7	1	239640	310
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	26.7	26.7	1	239623	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	26.7	26.7	1	239623	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	26.7	26.7	1	239641	2740
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	26.7	26.7	5	239617,239618,239623,239627,239638	24243
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	26.7	26.7	1	239627	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	26.7	26.7	1	239615	5591
Kermesite ()*	None	Sb₂OS₂	26.7	26.7	2	239626,239632	230
Livingstonite ()*	None	HgSb₄S₆(S)₂	26.7	26.7	1	239615	24
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	26.7	26.7	1	239625	12537
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	26.7	26.7	0		770
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	26.7	26.7	1	239638	5674
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	26.7	26.7	1	239615	397
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	26.7	26.7	1	239615	255
Metavariscite ()*	Phosphosiderite	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	26.7	26.7	1	239640	27
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	26.7	26.7	3	239619,239630,239633	716
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	26.7	26.7	3	239623,239638,239639	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	26.7	26.7	1	239638	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	26.7	26.7	6	239623,239625,239632,239638,239639,239640	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	26.7	26.7	0		1711
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	26.7	26.7	1	239638	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	26.7	26.7	4	239617,239623,239627,239638	21482
Stetefeldtite ()*	Pyrochlore	Ag₂Sb₂(O,OH)₇	26.7	26.7	0		22
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	26.7	26.7	0		446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	26.7	26.7	1	239632	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	26.7	26.7	4	239629,239633,239638,239639	5317
Todorokite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K,Ba,Sr)_1-x(Mn,Mg,Al)₆O₁₂·3-4H₂O	26.7	26.7	0		433
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	26.7	26.7	1	239641	484

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Hg-00092	26.7	26.7		Ar-Ar, K-Ar								Calomel, Cinnabar, Livingstonite, Mercury, Metacinnabar	Hg	37106	Tybo District, Hot Creek Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA		Best et al. (1989); Best and Christiansen (1991); Sawyer et al. (1994)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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