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Locality Name:
Dromedary Peak, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood District (Alta District), Wasatch Mts, Salt Lake Co., Utah, USA


mindat Locality ID: 41044
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-41044.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dromedary Peak, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood District (Alta District), Wasatch Mts, Salt Lake Co., Utah, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 2

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
South Hecla Mine

Latitude: 40°35'0"N
Longitude: 111°39'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.583333333333,-111.65
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: As Au B Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Mg O Pb S Sb Si W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AluniteAragoniteArsenicBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteCopperCovelliteEnargiteLudwigite
MeneghiniteNonePyriteRocksaltScheeliteSphaleriteSpinelStibniteTetrahedriteWollastonite
Wurtzite

21 IMA Minerals at location:
Aikinite  (*)Anglesite  (*)Bismite  (*)Bismuth  (*)Bismuthinite  (*)
Bornite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Covellite  (*)Enargite  (*)
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Ludwigite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Plumbojarosite  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Scheelite  (*)Smithsonite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Wollastonite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Aikinite  (*)MeneghiniteCuPbBiS32275689,275691315
Anglesite  (*)BarytePb(SO4)12756912734
Bismite  (*)NoneBi2O32275689,275691214
Bismuth  (*)ArsenicBi12756891966
Bismuthinite  (*)StibniteBi2S32275689,2756911935
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS412756895516
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)2275689,2756914979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2127568927198
Covellite  (*)CovelliteCuS12756914165
Enargite  (*)Enargite WurtziteCu3AsS41275689910
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2275689,27569124243
Gold  (*)CopperAu127569130554
Ludwigite  (*)LudwigiteMg2Fe3+O2(BO3)1275689134
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4127568914899
Plumbojarosite  (*)AlunitePb0.5Fe3+3(SO4)2(OH)61275689477
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2127568939462
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)12756894894
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)12756892473
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS127568921482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S132275689,2756915317
Wollastonite  (*)WollastoniteCaSiO312756891247


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