Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Thunder Mountain District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 541
Youngest recorded age at locality: 44

mindat Locality ID: 39613
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39613.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Thunder Mountain District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA": 89
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 88

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Area South Of Rainbow Peak Occurrence
Century Gold Project Occurrence (Century Prospect; Century Prospect Area)
Dewey Mine (Dewey Dome; Dewey-Sunnyside; Dewey Hill)
Fairview Occurrence
Gold Nugget Prospect
Idaho Primitive Area
Jumbo Prospect
Lark Prospect
Leap Year Prospect
Little Joe Prospect
Morning Prospect
New Hope Mine
Standard Mine
Sunnyside Mine
Tempiute Prospect
Terrible Teddy Prospect
Three Mile Prospect
Thunder Mountain (Blue Bluff Claims; Dewey Deposit)
Trap Creek Prospect
Tulluride Prospect
Twentieth Century Group
Venable Mine

Latitude: 44°56'55"N
Longitude: 115°9'18"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.948611111111,-115.155

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.

Alunite	Baryte	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Fluorite	Kaolinite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Baryte ()*	Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	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 Ba Ca F Fe H K Mg Na O S Sb Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Baryte Clay Copper Corundum Diaspore Fluorite Kaolinite None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Quartz Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Zircon

14 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
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂			1	211965	2162
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	541	541	1	212016	11547
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			1	211965	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	211965	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			4	211965,211999,212011,212043	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃			1	211965	5433
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			1	211965	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	211965	5591
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O			1	211965	1508
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃			1	211965	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			2	211965,212043	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			1	211965	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂			1	211965	5614
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)			1	211965	5251

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Prioritized?	Sample Num	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference ID
ree-00694	541	541	Precambrian	low		139200	Monumental Summit Rare - Earth Prospect, Idaho Primitive Area, Thunder Mountain District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA	Monumental Summit	Orris and Grauch (2002)	USGSOFR02_189
NAVDAT-49695	52	44	48±4		49695	139383	New Hope Mine, Thunder Mountain District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-51197	52	44	48±4		51197	139383	New Hope Mine, Thunder Mountain District, Valley Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT	NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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