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Locality Name:
Blue Eyed Nellie Mining District, Deer Lodge Co., Montana, USA


mindat Locality ID: 41737
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-41737.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blue Eyed Nellie Mining District, Deer Lodge Co., Montana, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Area North Of Warm Springs Creek Prospect
Blue Eyed Nellie Creek Quarry
Blue Eyed Nellie Mine
Brown's Quarry
Homestake Mine
Luke Quarry
Mayflower Mine (Golden Crown Mine)
Mohawk Mine
Morgan Evans Mine
Stuckey Ridge
Suprise Mine

Latitude: 46°10'24"N
Longitude: 113°2'33"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.173333333333,-113.0425
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: Au C Cu Fe H O Pb S Sb Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteChalcopyriteCopperMalachiteNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltTetrahedrite

9 IMA Minerals at location:
Bornite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)
Malachite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS412277415516
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)12277354979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2122774127198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS122773524243
Gold  (*)CopperAu122773930554
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2122773512537
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22227739,22774139462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO23227735,227738,22773961156
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1312277355317


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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