Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Northern Spy Mine, Tintic District, Utah Co., Utah, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 32
Youngest recorded age at locality: 32

mindat Locality ID: 4190
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4190.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Northern Spy Mine, Tintic District, Utah Co., Utah, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 39°55'46"N
Longitude: 112°5'56"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.929444444444,-112.09888888889

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.

Adelite	Aragonite	Atelestite	Baryte	Bismutite	Copper	Enargite	Malachite	Mixite	None
Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt	Wurtzite

Agardite-(Y) ()*	Atelestite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Beyerite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Conichalcite ()*	Copper ()*	Enargite ()*
Galena ()*	Kettnerite ()*	Malachite ()*	Mixite ()*	Quartz ()*

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 As Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cu F H O Pb S Si Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag As Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cu F H O Pb S Si Y

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Adelite Aragonite Atelestite Baryte Bismutite Copper Enargite Malachite Mixite None
Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt Wurtzite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Agardite-(Y) ()*	Mixite	YCu²⁺₆(AsO₄)₃(OH)₆·3H₂O	32	32	90
Atelestite ()*	Atelestite	Bi₂O(AsO₄)(OH)	32	32	47
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	32	32	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	32	32	11547
Beyerite ()*	Bismutite	CaBi₂O₂(CO₃)₂	32	32	96
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	32	32	4979
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	32	32	1382
Conichalcite ()*	Adelite	CaCu(AsO₄)(OH)	32	32	363
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	32	32	3846
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	32	32	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	32	32	24243
Kettnerite ()*	Bismutite	CaBiO(CO₃)F	32	32	46
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	32	32	12537
Mixite ()*	Mixite	Cu₆Bi(AsO₄)₃(OH)₆·3H₂O	32	32	168
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	32	32	61156

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
	sedznpb-00496	32	32	32							Yes				4192	Tintic District, East Tintic Mts, Juab Co., Utah, USA	Tintic–East Tintic	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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