Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Hooper Mine, Barcelona District (Spanish Belt District), Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 27
Youngest recorded age at locality: 19.8

mindat Locality ID: 40049
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-40049.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hooper Mine, Barcelona District (Spanish Belt District), Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 38°39'16"N
Longitude: 116°56'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.654444444444,-116.94638888889

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.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Sample Source	Sample Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID
Kristen000222	27	24.8	25.9±1.1	fission track	zircon	DRS-74-266	Yes	Zircon	261556	Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA	Toquima Range	Shawe et al. (1986)	10.2113/gsecongeo.81.2.388	EG81_388
Kristen000240	23.4	21.4	22.4±1	fission track	zircon	DRS-80-60	Yes	Zircon	261556	Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA	Toquima Range	Shawe et al. (1986)	10.2113/gsecongeo.81.2.388	EG81_388
Kristen000241	24.6	19.8	22.2±2.4	fission track	apatite	DRS-80-60	Yes		261556	Toquima Range, Nye Co., Nevada, USA	Toquima Range	Shawe et al. (1986)	10.2113/gsecongeo.81.2.388	EG81_388

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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