Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Snake Creek District (Howland District; White Pine District), Wasatch Mts, Wasatch Co., Utah, USA

mindat Locality ID: 37496
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-37496.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Snake Creek District (Howland District; White Pine District), Wasatch Mts, Wasatch Co., Utah, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Green Monster Mine
Heber Lion & West Park Occurrence
Revelator Mine
Steamboat Tunnel (Great Western Mines Group)
West Park Mine
West Quincy Mine (United Park City Mines Company; Judge Group; West Quincy Property)

Latitude: 40°34'17"N
Longitude: 111°34'43"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.571388888889,-111.57861111111

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Garnet	Mica	None	Olivine
Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Grossular ()*
Magnetite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	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: Al Au C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca H K Mg O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Garnet Mica None Olivine
Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	278571,278573	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	278575	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	278572,278575	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	278571,278573	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	278571,278573,278575	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	3	278570,278573,278574	9895
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	278573	1188
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	278572,278575	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	278575	30554
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	0		1544
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	278573	14899
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	0		17380
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	0		2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	278575	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	278572	1725
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	278572,278575	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	278575	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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