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Locality Name:
De Lamar District, Owyhee Co., Idaho, USA

mindat Locality ID: 39604
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39604.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "De Lamar District, Owyhee Co., Idaho, USA": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 24
Child Localities:
Alta Property
Banner Mine (Tip Top; Monarch Trust)
Breccia Zone Silver Occurrence
Chatauqua Mine
Continental Quicksilver Prospect
Cook Group (Sidney Mining Company)
Daisy Claim Mine
De Lamar Mine (Wahl; Sommercamp; Voschay)
Delamer Placers
Erdman Prospect (Erdman Tunnel; Erdman Mine)
Garfield Claim Group Mine (Belle Cora; North Side; Golden Cycle; Surplus; Extension And Chief; Stoddard; Garfield; Gold Hill)
Golden Cycle Occurrence (Garfield Group; Garfield Tunnel)
Idaho Placer
Lepley Claim Group Mine (Boone; Ohio; Advance; Beck; Balance; Last Chance Claims)
Manhattan
Milestone Prospect
Rich Gulch Mine
Sidney Property (Cook Group; Cop Group)
Silver Vault Vein Mine
Soda Spring (Red Rock)
Sommercamp Placer (De Lamar)
Stone Cabin Mine
Wagontown Mercury Prospect
Webfoot Mine

Latitude: 43°1'13"N
Longitude: 116°50'22"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.020277777778,-116.83944444444

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	Alunite	Baryte	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Diaspore	Feldspar	Fluorite
Kaolinite	Mandarinoite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sapphirine
Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite

Acanthite ()*	Aenigmatite ()*	Aguilarite ()*	Baryte ()*	Beidellite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Fischesserite ()*
Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Jarosite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Mandarinoite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Miargyrite ()*	Naumannite ()*
Orthoclase ()*	Polybasite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Selenopolybasite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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 Ba Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Na O Pb S Sb Se Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Alunite Baryte Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Diaspore Feldspar Fluorite
Kaolinite Mandarinoite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sapphirine
Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite

29 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	2	210442,210447	2793
Aenigmatite ()*	Sapphirine	Na₄[Fe²⁺₁₀Ti₂]O₄[Si₁₂O₃₆]	1	210447	133
Aguilarite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₄SeS	1	210447	87
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	210447,210450	11547
Beidellite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3Al₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	210447	85
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	210447	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	2	210447,210461	1382
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	210447	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	210447	4165
Fischesserite ()*	None	Ag₃AuSe₂	1	210447	24
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	210441	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	210447	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	210441,210443,210446,210447,210449,210450,210456	30554
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	1	210447	784
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	2	210447,210461	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	210447	5591
Mandarinoite ()*	Mandarinoite	Fe³⁺₂(Se⁴⁺O₃)₃·6H₂O	1	210447	14
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	2	210447,210458	5674
Miargyrite ()*	None	AgSbS₂	2	210447,210458	300
Naumannite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ag₂Se	3	210441,210447,210461	192
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	210441	2349
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	2	210447,210456	716
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	1	210447	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	2	210447,210458	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	210442,210447,210450,210458	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	11	210441,210442,210443,210446,210447,210449,210450,210456,210458,210461,210463	61156
Selenopolybasite ()*	None	Cu(Ag,Cu)₆Ag₉Sb₂(S,Se)₉Se₂	1	210447	6
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2	210447,210461	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	210447	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R070505	De Lamar Mine (Wahl; Sommercamp; Voschay), De Lamar District, Owyhee Co., Idaho, USA	https://rruff.info/R070505

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