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Locality Name:
Silver City District (Carson District), Owyhee Co., Idaho, USA

mindat Locality ID: 3742
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3742.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Silver City District (Carson District), Owyhee Co., Idaho, USA": 64
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 63

Number of Child Localities: 63
Child Localities:
Berg Mine (Baker; Hathaway Company)
Bergh-Sunnyside Group (Rooster Comb-Sunnyside Mining Corporation)
Black Horse Prospect
Black Jack Mine-Trade Dollar Mine (Blaine; Empire State; Colorado; Alpine; Blaine Extension; Jumbo; South Pluto; Belfast; Black Bart; Fraction; Caroline; Phillip; Sullivan)
Blaine Tunnel
Booneville Mine (Idaho; Seventy Nine; Phillips And Sullivan; Treasury; Owyhee; And Humbolt Claims)
Browney
Brunzel Mine (Summit Vein)
California Shaft (Marguerite Shaft)
Consolidated Mine & Dredge Company
Copper Occurrence (MRDS - 10070291)
Cosmopolitan Mine (Hammond Group)
Crown Point Claim Mine
Cumberland Mine
Dewey Mine (Florida Mountain)
East Fork Of Reynolds Creek Prospect
Empire State
Gale Exploration & Mining Corporation
Gold Bug Vein Mine
Gold Standard Mining Corporation
Golden Gate
Goldsil Mines Inc.
Good Hope Placers Inc. (Coeur D'alene Investors Inc)
Grey Eagle Prospect
Henrietta Mine (Big I; Central)
Home Claim
Hoosier Leasing
Humboldt
Ida Belle Mine
Interstate Gold Mining Company
Jordan Creek
Jordan Creek Placers
Lindy
Matteson Mine
Metallic Mine (Miller And Walters)
Monarca Mine
Mother Lode Gold Mining & Milling
North American Silver Corporation
Nugent Prospect
Ontario Claim Group Mine
Poorman Mine (Oso; Belle Peck Tunnels)
Ruby City Mining Company
Ruth
Saw Pit Prospect (Mammoth Mine)
Sierra Nevada Vein Mine
Silver Burg Mine
Silver City Mine
Silver City; War Eagle; Florida
Sinker Tunnel Occurrence
Slacks Mountain Prospects
Soilife Inc
Summit
Sunnyside Group (Victory Mining & Milling Company)
Tango
Tennessee Mountain Prospects
Tip Top
Trade Dollar Mine (Jumbo; South Pluto; Black Bart; Caroline; Colorado; Blaine; Blaine Extension)
Twin Peaks Prospects
Village Blacksmith
War Eagle Mine
War Eagle Mine (South Chariot; Orofino; Golden Chariot; Mahogany; Sinker; Ida Elmore)
Webster Vein Mine
Ymir Consolidated Mining Company

Latitude: 43°4'11"N
Longitude: 116°44'20"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.069722222222,-116.73888888889

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	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote
Feldspar	Fluorite	Malachite	Marcasite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Owyheeite	Polybasite	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Vivianite	Xanthoconite

Acanthite ()*	Aguilarite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Beidellite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Copper ()*
Corundum ()*	Diaphorite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Linnaeite ()*	Malachite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Miargyrite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Naumannite ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Owyheeite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrostilpnite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*
Stibnite ()*	Stromeyerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Vivianite ()*
Xanthoconite ()*

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 Ca Cl Co Cu F Fe H K Na O P Pb S Sb Se Si Sn Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Co Cu Fe K O Pb S Sb Se Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote
Feldspar Fluorite Malachite Marcasite Mica None Not in a structural group Owyheeite Polybasite Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Tetrahedrite Vivianite Xanthoconite

41 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	9	210600,210601,210602,210605,210637,210644,210653,210657,210658	2793
Aguilarite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₄SeS	0		87
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	0		9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	210621	11547
Beidellite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3Al₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	210600	85
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	210601,210637	27770
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	1	210627	5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	8	210597,210600,210601,210605,210625,210632,210637,210644	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	3	210600,210637,210644	1382
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	210607	3846
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	210627	1797
Diaphorite ()*	None	Ag₃Pb₂Sb₃S₈	0		126
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3	210600,210601,210611	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	3	210600,210612,210643	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5	210597,210600,210625,210632,210644	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	16	210600,210602,210604,210608,210610,210611,210612,210615,210627,210628,210630,210631,210637,210651,210654,210658	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	210646	14640
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	1	210600	784
Linnaeite ()*	Spinel	Co²⁺Co³⁺₂S₄	0		249
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	210640	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	2	210600,210637	5674
Miargyrite ()*	None	AgSbS₂	3	210621,210653,210658	300
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	210599,210632,210637	17380
Naumannite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ag₂Se	1	210600	192
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	0		2349
Owyheeite ()*	Owyheeite	Ag₃Pb₁₀Sb₁₁S₂₈	1	210637	89
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	3	210600,210621,210637	716
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	4	210600,210637,210644,210653	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	6	210605,210621,210637,210643,210644,210653	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	13	210600,210602,210612,210621,210625,210631,210637,210640,210643,210644,210646,210651,210654	39462
Pyrostilpnite ()*	Xanthoconite	Ag₃SbS₃	1	210621	84
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	24	210599,210600,210601,210602,210604,210605,210608,210610,210611,210612,210615,210621,210625,210630,210631,210632,210635,210637,210640,210643,210646,210651,210654,210658	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	210637	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	6	210597,210600,210625,210632,210637,210644	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	3	210600,210621,210637	586
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	4	210599,210608,210635,210646	3418
Stromeyerite ()*	None	CuAgS	0		332
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	0		1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	210621	5317
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	2	210600,210653	636
Xanthoconite ()*	Xanthoconite	Ag₃AsS₃	0		89

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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