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Locality Name:
Big Creek District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 48
Youngest recorded age at locality: 45

mindat Locality ID: 39611
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39611.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Big Creek District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA": 51
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 49

Number of Child Localities: 23
Child Localities:
Antimony Rainbow Group Mine (Dokka; Yellow Jacket; Northern Crown; Empress; Logan; Dixie; Goldman & McRae; New Year; Gold King; Golden West; Palo Alto)
B & B Deposit (Dundee)
B And B No. 4 Claim
Big Creek
Blain Occurrence (Blain-Dawson)
Copper Prospect (Iron Clad Group)
Dewey Moore Group Prospect
Golden West Mine (Palo Alto; Potter; Antimony Rainbow)
Green Occurrence (North Star)
Idaho Primitive Area
Jensen Group Mine
John Vine Bar Placer
Ketchum Claim
Lime Creek Prospect
Logan Copper Hill Prospect (Faulkenburg; Red Garnet; Copper Hill Prospect; Lady Garnet)
Ludwig Deposit (Laufer And Davis; Nevitt; Last Chance Prospect; Golden Way Up)
Morning Star Tungsten Claims
Routson Prospect (Elliott)
Scheelite Occurrence (Babbitt Metal)
Skookum Claim
Tellurium Group
Unknown Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10218038)
Yellowstone Kid No. 1-2 Prospect

Latitude: 45°6'52"N
Longitude: 115°15'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.114444444444,-115.25666666667

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	Amorphous	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite
Fluorite	Malachite	Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite
Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bertrandite ()*	Bornite ()*	Boulangerite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Covellite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hübnerite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Metacinnabar ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Polhemusite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stibnite ()*	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 Al Au Ba Be C Ca Cu F Fe H Hg K Mn O Pb S Sb Si Ti W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amorphous Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Copper Corundum Covellite
Fluorite Malachite Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite
Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Tetrahedrite

27 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
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	48	45	2	211554,211597	2793
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	48	45	1	211556	11547
Bertrandite ()*	Not in a structural group	Be₄Si₂O₇(OH)₂	48	45	1	211558	606
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	48	45	1	211568	5516
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	48	45	1	211556	843
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	48	45	1	211558	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	48	45	10	211554,211561,211562,211568,211586,211589,211592,211596,211597,211599	27198
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	48	45	3	211554,211555,211556	2600
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	48	45	1	211556	4165
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	48	45	2	211554,211558	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	48	45	2	211558,211587	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	48	45	21	211563,211566,211569,211570,211571,211572,211573,211574,211575,211576,211577,211581,211582,211583,211584,211588,211590,211592,211593,211595,211597	30554
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	48	45	4	211554,211559,211597,211598	469
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	48	45	12	211569,211570,211572,211574,211575,211577,211580,211582,211583,211584,211588,211593	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	48	45	2	211573,211580	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	48	45	2	211586,211589	12537
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	48	45	1	211555	255
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	48	45	2	211556,211558	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	48	45	3	211567,211591,211594	2994
Polhemusite ()*	Sphalerite	(Zn,Hg)S	48	45	1	211555	4
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	48	45	9	211554,211556,211558,211561,211562,211568,211592,211596,211597	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	48	45	1	211592	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	48	45	18	211554,211555,211556,211558,211559,211561,211562,211563,211566,211568,211586,211589,211592,211595,211596,211597,211598,211599	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	48	45	5	211554,211558,211559,211563,211597	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	48	45	5	211554,211555,211556,211558,211597	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	48	45	6	211554,211555,211556,211563,211596,211599	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	48	45	3	211554,211558,211597	5317

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
	Hg-00094	48	45										Cinnabar, Metacinnabar, Polhemusite	Hg	39611	Big Creek District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		Leonard et al. (1978); Leonard and Marvin (1982); Criss et al. (1984)

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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