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Locality Name:
Murray District (Summit District), Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA

mindat Locality ID: 39609
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39609.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Murray District (Summit District), Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Beaver Creek Placers
Eagle Creek Placers
Four Square Mine (Flagstaff Group; Friday Mine; Achievement Mine; Golden Winnie Group; Lucky Winnie Mine; Crown Point Group)
Gold Coin Mine (Fannie Group)
Gold Run Creek
Murray
Ophir Mountain
Prichard Creek
Prichard Creek Placer

Latitude: 47°36'54"N
Longitude: 115°51'27"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.615,-115.8575

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.

Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Melonite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Scheelite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Sylvanite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 As Au C Ca Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si Te Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Melonite Nickeline None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	2	211301,211303	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	12	211296,211297,211299,211300,211301,211305,211306,211307,211308,211309,211310,211312	9052
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	15	211293,211294,211296,211297,211299,211300,211301,211303,211305,211306,211307,211308,211309,211310,211312	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	15	211293,211294,211296,211297,211299,211300,211301,211303,211305,211306,211307,211308,211309,211310,211312	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	13	211291,211292,211293,211294,211299,211303,211305,211306,211308,211309,211310,211312,211313	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	211303,211306	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	12	211296,211297,211299,211300,211301,211305,211306,211307,211308,211309,211310,211312	14899
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	15	211293,211294,211296,211297,211299,211300,211301,211303,211305,211306,211307,211308,211309,211310,211312	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	14	211293,211296,211297,211299,211300,211301,211303,211305,211306,211307,211308,211309,211310,211312	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	15	211293,211294,211296,211297,211299,211300,211301,211303,211305,211306,211307,211308,211309,211310,211312	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	211306	5614
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	5	211293,211300,211303,211306,211312	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	211299	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	15	211293,211294,211296,211297,211299,211300,211301,211303,211305,211306,211307,211308,211309,211310,211312	21482
Sylvanite ()*	Melonite	AgAuTe₄	1	211297	337
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	211303	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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