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Locality Name:
Linden, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Iowa Co., Wisconsin, USA

mindat Locality ID: 4224
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4224.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Linden, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Iowa Co., Wisconsin, USA": 35
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 34

Number of Child Localities: 34
Child Localities:
Dark Horse-Optimo No. 1 Mine
Depot Mine
East Glanville Mine
East Pecatonica Creek
Elsie Lead Mine
Gilman Mine
Glanville Mine (Treglown And Captain Wicks Mine; Morrison Diggings)
Gribble And Stevens Mine (Milwaukee Mine)
Jewell Mine (Eagle-Picher Industries; Inc.)
Linden Open Cut Mine
Mason Mine (Linden Mine; Heathcock)
Masters Quarry (George Wendtlandt; Inc.)
North Rule Mine
Optimo No. 2 Mine
Optimo No. 3 Mine (Rolling Mine)
Optimo No. 4 Mine (Fearless)
Prairie Mine
Pump Diggings
Rajah Mine
Robarts-Hinkel Mine (Kickapoo; Hinkle; Lucky Six No. 2; Treloar)
Ross Mine
South Rule Mine
Spargo Mine
Spring Hill Mine
Stephens Quarry (George Wendtlandt; Inc.)
Stevens Mine
Treloar Mine (Harmony Mine)
Trio Mine (Pode Mine)
Twin Peaks Lead Mine
Vial Mine
Weigel Mine
West Glanville Mine
Wicks Mine
Wildcat Mine

Latitude: 42°55'28"N
Longitude: 90°16'12"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.924444444444,-90.27

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Covellite	Gypsum	Hydrotalcite	Marcasite	Melanterite	Millerite
None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Woodwardite

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Covellite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Honessite ()*
Hydrozincite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Millerite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Violarite ()*

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: Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Ni O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Covellite Gypsum Hydrotalcite Marcasite Melanterite Millerite
None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Woodwardite

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	6	287841,287844,287845,287847,287850,287855	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	24	287828,287830,287834,287835,287836,287839,287841,287842,287843,287844,287845,287847,287848,287849,287850,287851,287852,287855,287856,287858,287859,287860,287861,287862	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	0		4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	0		5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	0		27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	0		4165
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	23	287828,287830,287834,287835,287836,287839,287841,287842,287843,287844,287845,287847,287848,287849,287850,287851,287852,287855,287856,287858,287859,287861,287862	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	13	287828,287835,287836,287839,287841,287842,287844,287845,287848,287850,287851,287856,287860	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	0		6890
Honessite ()*	Woodwardite Hydrotalcite	(Ni_1-xFe³⁺_x)(SO₄)_x/2(OH)₂·nH₂O (x < 0.5, n < 3x/2)	4	287834,287835,287839,287860	25
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	0		1066
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	8	287834,287836,287839,287841,287844,287845,287850,287855	5674
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	0		915
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	7	287830,287834,287835,287836,287839,287848,287849	1066
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	23	287828,287830,287834,287835,287836,287839,287841,287842,287843,287844,287845,287847,287848,287849,287850,287851,287852,287855,287856,287858,287859,287861,287862	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	23	287828,287830,287834,287835,287836,287839,287841,287842,287843,287844,287845,287847,287848,287849,287850,287851,287852,287855,287856,287858,287859,287861,287862	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	4	287828,287835,287842,287856	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	24	287828,287830,287834,287835,287836,287839,287841,287842,287843,287844,287845,287847,287848,287849,287850,287851,287852,287855,287856,287858,287859,287860,287861,287862	21482
Violarite ()*	Spinel	FeNi₂S₄	6	287830,287834,287835,287836,287839,287849	380

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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