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Locality Name:
Highland Mining District (Siberia Mining District), Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA

mindat Locality ID: 3876
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3876.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Highland Mining District (Siberia Mining District), Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA": 27
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 27

Number of Child Localities: 27
Child Localities:
Ballarat Mine
Beal Mountain Mine (Beal Lode; German Gulch)
Bear Cat Prospect
Brooks Prospect
Butte Highlands Mine (Highland; Nevin Hill; Tilton; Murphy; Only Chance; J.B. Thompson; Diamond T)
Cooley Cooly Gulch Placer (See Fish Creek Mine; See Fish Creek Placers; Cooly Gulch; Highlands Placer; Highland Placer)
Denny Prospect
E. X. L. Claim
Edna Kibler Prospect
Fish Creek Mine (See Cooley Cooly Placer; See Fish Creek Placer)
Fish Creek Placers (Highland Gulch Placers)
Golden Surprise Claim
Highland Mountains Area
Highland View Claim
Iron Cliff
Last Chance Mine
Limestone Occurrence (MRDS - 10221298)
Little Joe-Hazel Claim
McPhail Prospect
Moose Creek-Fish Creek Traverse Occurrence
Overlook Occurrence (Denny Prospect; Iron Cliff)
Ozark Prospect
Ready Cash (U. S. Gold; Paymaster)
Red Wing Mine
Scenic Lode Occurrence
Silver King Placer
Templeman Claim

Latitude: 45°48'43"N
Longitude: 112°29'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.811944444444,-112.49111111111

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	Allophane	Amphibole	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper
Corundum	Epidote	Fluorite	Malachite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene
Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Talc	Tetradymite

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*
Curite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Montanite ()*	Powellite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*
Tellurobismuthite ()*	Tetradymite ()*	Zoisite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg Mo O Pb S Sb Si Te U W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg O Pb S Sb Si Te U

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Amphibole Aragonite Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper
Corundum Epidote Fluorite Malachite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene
Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Talc Tetradymite

33 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	0		2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	0		3419
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	0		9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	0		5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	0		5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0		27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	0		4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	233927	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	0		3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	233943,233945	3846
Curite ()*	None	Pb_3+x[(UO₂)₄O_4+x(OH)_3-x]₂·2H₂O	0		51
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	233945	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	7	233923,233925,233926,233927,233930,233936,233949	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	233945	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	233927,233936,233949	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	233924,233932,233933,233934,233943	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0		14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	233945	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	233943	5800
Montanite ()*	None	Bi³⁺₂Te⁶⁺O₆·nH₂O (0 ≤ n ≤ 2/3)	1	233933	22
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	1	233943	494
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	0		1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	233936	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	233927	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	233924,233927,233945	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	233943	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	233943	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	233927,233936,233949	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2	233936,233949	3337
Tellurobismuthite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₃	1	233933	276
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	0		510
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	0		1025

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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