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Locality Name:
Eureka District, Lemhi Co., Idaho, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1400
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1400

mindat Locality ID: 39586
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39586.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Eureka District, Lemhi Co., Idaho, USA": 71
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 68

Number of Child Localities: 64
Child Localities:
Andrews Mine
Armstrong Prospect (Donna No. 1)
Baldy Mountain Tungsten Occurrence
Beartrack Property
Best Bet And Best Bet No. 2
Bob Moore Creek Placer
Bob Moore Creek Prospect
Bob Moore Uranium Prospect
Bobcat Gulch Prospect (Napolean Ridge)
Bowman Mine (Dishman)
Bromite Silver Lodes Occurrence
Buckhorn Mine (MRDS - 10290353)
Comet Creek
Contact Claim Group (Diamond Creek Area; Bell)
Copper Mountain Mine
Delmar Mine
Deriar Creek Placers
Eaglesnest Occurrence (Eagle Nest; Williams Creek)
Fenster Creek Placer
Forget - Me - Not Prospect (Bird Creek Prospect)
Gold Dust Prospect (Kirkpatrick)
Gold Ridge Prospect
Idaho Primitive Area
Lang Claim
Lemhi Group
Lemhi River Placer
Lemhi Valley Bentonite Mine
Lucky Prospect (Frank Burch Property)
McConnell-Sargent Claims
McKinley Lode Occurrence
Mont-Ida Uranium Prospect (Leesburg Uranium Inc. Property)
Morning Glory Prospect
Mother Lode Occurrence
Napoleon Gulch Placer
Neal Allen Placers
Overlook Mine
Queen Of The Hills Mine (Queen And Crescent; Amagosa; Last Chance; Copper Queen Mining And Smelting Co)
Red Bird Lodes Occurrence
Red Cross Group
Rocket - Dolly Group (Dolly Claims; Little Maud; Rocket; Seloma)
Salmon
Salmon Bentonite Mine
Salmon Sandstone Quarry
Salmon Sandstone Quarry E.
Salmon Sandstone Quarry S.
Sheep Creek Mines
Shoo Fly Mine (Sims Mine)
Silverton Prospect
Simer Prospect (Columbite)
Skyline Uranium Occurrence (Leesburg Uranium Property Inc. Property)
Sparkplug Kyanite Prospect
Starlight Prospect
Tendoy Mine
Tormey Mine (Tornay; Tormay; Greenhorn)
U. P. Mine (Burlington)
Unnamed Copper Location (MRDS - 10290354)
Unnamed Gold Location (MRDS - 10241983)
Unnamed Gold Location (MRDS - 10290972)
Unnamed Gold Mine (MRDS - 10013478)
Unnamed Gold Mine (MRDS - 10094589)
Unnamed Gold Prospect (MRDS - 10013474)
Unnamed Thorium Prospect (MRDS - 10013477)
Wickham Mine (Maverick; Liberty Bell No. 3)
Wilson Creek Claim

Latitude: 45°12'29"N
Longitude: 113°57'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.208055555556,-113.95583333333

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.

Allophane	Aragonite	Autunite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum
Covellite	Diaspore	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tridymite	Zircon

Albite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Autunite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*
Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Carnotite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*
Delafossite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Microcline ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Sanidine ()*	Scheelite ()*	Siderite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Thorite ()*	Torbernite ()*	Tridymite ()*
Tyuyamunite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mo Na O P Pb S Si Th Ti U V W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Aragonite Autunite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum
Covellite Diaspore Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Tridymite Zircon

42 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)			1	209470	8803
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)			1	209480	2734
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O			1	209470	1272
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1400	1400	2	209472,209480	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1400	1400	3	209439,209472,209481	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1400	1400	3	209440,209472,209486	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			2	209439,209480	27770
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O			1	209427	1184
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)			1	209480	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1400	1400	3	209434,209472,209486	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1400	1400	9	209432,209434,209435,209440,209453,209465,209472,209480,209486	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1400	1400	2	209435,209472	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1400	1400	2	209472,209480	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1400	1400	1	209472	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1400	1400	2	209472,209480	2970
Delafossite ()*	None	Cu¹⁺Fe³⁺O₂	1400	1400	1	209472	144
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1400	1400	1	209472	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			1	209481	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			4	209432,209441,209465,209480	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			2	209428,209439	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			8	209426,209431,209442,209451,209454,209462,209465,209473	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1400	1400	4	209427,209439,209470,209472	14640
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄			1	209483	1507
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1400	1400	2	209439,209472	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1400	1400	10	209432,209435,209439,209440,209441,209453,209465,209472,209480,209486	12537
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	209439	4924
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			1	209434	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1400	1400	1	209472	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	209470	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1400	1400	11	209428,209432,209434,209435,209439,209441,209465,209472,209480,209486,209487	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1400	1400	12	209432,209435,209439,209440,209441,209465,209470,209472,209480,209481,209486,209487	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			1	209439	5614
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	209470	598
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)			2	209432,209487	4894
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)			1	209428	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			1	209426	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1400	1400	2	209472,209480	21482
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)			1	209439	1006
Torbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O			1	209470	1059
Tridymite ()*	Tridymite	SiO₂			1	209470	458
Tyuyamunite ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·5-8H₂O			1	209457	628
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O			2	209457,209470	890

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedcu-00659	1400	1400	Middle Proterozoic (Helikian)										Cu	18888	Pope-Shenon Mine (Grandview Mine; Castle Rock Group), Sal Mountain, Salmon, Eureka District, Lemhi Co., Idaho, USA	Pope-Shenon	Cox et al. (2003)		USGSOFR03_107

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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