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Locality Name:
Quartzburg District, Boise Co., Idaho, USA


mindat Locality ID: 39457
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39457.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Quartzburg District, Boise Co., Idaho, USA": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Belshazzar Mine
Blue Rock Deposit
Boise Basin
Canyon Creek Mine (Silver King Claims)
Carroll-Driscoll Mine (Coin Bond Group Mine; Carroll - Driscoll Groups)
Clear Creek
Gold Hill Mine (Pioneer; Consolidated Gold Hill And Iowa Groups Mine)
Gold Pine Occurrence (Black Knight Group; Old Lee Bunch Mine)
Grandview Prospects (Brunnel)
Granite
Mountain Chief Mine

Latitude: 43°56'44"N
Longitude: 115°59'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.945555555556,-115.98416666667
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si Te Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe S 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteArsenicArsenopyriteCalciteChalcopyriteClayCopperCovelliteKobelliteLillianite
MicaNickelineNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltSphaleriteStibniteTetradymiteTetrahedrite

21 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Bismuth  (*)Bismuthinite  (*)Calcite  (*)
Chalcopyrite  (*)Covellite  (*)Galena  (*)Galenobismutite  (*)Gold  (*)
Lillianite  (*)Matildite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Silver  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Stibnite  (*)Tetradymite  (*)
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S12052442793
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS2205239,2052499052
Bismuth  (*)ArsenicBi12052491966
Bismuthinite  (*)StibniteBi2S32205245,2052491935
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)3205243,205245,20524927770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS22205243,20524927198
Covellite  (*)CovelliteCuS12052434165
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS6205239,205240,205242,205243,205245,20524924243
Galenobismutite  (*)KobellitePbBi2S43205239,205245,205249192
Gold  (*)CopperAu5205239,205243,205245,205249,20525030554
Lillianite  (*)LillianitePb3-2xAgxBi2+xS62205245,205249128
Matildite  (*)NoneAgBiS22205245,205249252
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)23205243,205245,20524917380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS26205239,205240,205242,205243,205245,20524939462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S809056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO26205239,205240,205242,205243,205245,20524961156
Silver  (*)CopperAg12052455186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS6205239,205240,205242,205243,205245,20524921482
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S33205239,205245,2052493418
Tetradymite  (*)TetradymiteBi2Te2S1205245510
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S133205240,205243,2052455317


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