Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Dixie District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA

mindat Locality ID: 39567
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39567.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dixie District, Idaho Co., Idaho, USA": 68
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 67

Number of Child Localities: 63
Child Localities:
Ajax Mine
Alberta Mine
American Mine
Aryn Prospect
Badger Mine
Big Creek Meadows Prospect
Big Creek Placer
Black Diamond Mine
Blacksand Placer Mine
Blakely Prospect
Blowout Mountain Prospect
Bonanza Mine (Golden Age)
Boulder Creek Placer (MRDS - 10265960)
Burpee Mine (Lo Lo; Pack Sack)
Comstock Mine
Crooked Creek Placer (Dixie)
Dixie (Crooked Creek)
Dixie Comstock Mine
Dixie Gulch Placer
Dixie Queen Deposit
Dixie Royal Mine (Gold Miter)
Effie No. 24 And 28 Prospect
Eldorado (Ironside)
Five Tree Prospect
Fourth Of July Mine (Prichard Mine)
Free Gold Mine
Gold Hill Prospect
Gold Leaf
Gold Master Occurrence
Goldmaster Deposit
Hematite Mine
Hewitt Prospect
Hundred Dollar Gulch Placer (Idaho Placer)
Idaho Comstock (Comstock; Dixie Comstock)
Idaho Primitive Area
Jessen Creek Placer
L And L Mine
Lamb Creek Diggings
Long Tom Prospect
Mallard Creek Prospect
Mammoth Deposit
McKinley-Republican Mine
Midas Placer
North Star Prospects
Nugget Gulch Placer
Olive Creek Occurrence (Twenty Thousand Gulch; Hill)
Olive Creek Placers (Twenty Thousand Gulch)
Ontario
Robinson Dike Mine (Dixie Dike; Gold Hill Group)
Sadie H No. 1 Prospect
Sipes Creek Placer
Sixty Four Mine
Skylark Mine
Slip Easy Mine
Snow Storm Mine (Penn-Dixie)
Swastika Claims (Majestic)
Sweet Baby Bagely Placer
Tiawaka Mine (Loyalty)
Tonopah Claims
Unnamed Feldspar Location (MRDS - 10216799)
Unnamed Gold Location (MRDS - 10216656)
Unnamed Gold Prospect (MRDS - 10192515)
Utopia Occurrence

Latitude: 45°34'0"N
Longitude: 115°30'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.566666666667,-115.50083333333

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	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite	Mica	Molybdenite	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Vivianite	Zircon

Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Petzite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Vivianite ()*	Wulfenite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Au Ca Ce Cl Cu Fe H K Mo Nb O P Pb S Si Ta Te Th Ti U Y Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Copper Corundum Covellite Mica Molybdenite None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Vivianite Zircon

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	12	208163,208165,208170,208174,208182,208183,208187,208208,208219,208220,208221,208225	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	208174	4165
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	1	208178	414
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	14	208163,208165,208170,208174,208180,208182,208183,208187,208207,208208,208219,208220,208221,208225	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	14	208165,208170,208178,208180,208181,208195,208198,208201,208202,208203,208212,208214,208218,208226	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	4	208178,208198,208201,208202	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	208198,208201,208202	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	208223	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	208180,208200	17380
Petzite ()*	None	Ag₃AuTe₂	1	208170	409
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	14	208163,208165,208170,208174,208180,208182,208183,208187,208208,208219,208220,208221,208223,208225	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	2	208177,208207	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	22	208163,208165,208170,208174,208177,208178,208180,208182,208183,208187,208198,208200,208201,208202,208207,208208,208219,208220,208221,208223,208225,208226	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	3	208178,208198,208201	5614
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	208200	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	14	208163,208165,208170,208174,208177,208182,208183,208187,208207,208208,208219,208220,208221,208225	21482
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	208189	636
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	208188	1655
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	3	208198,208201,208202	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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