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Locality Name:
Olson Gulch Mining District, Deer Lodge Co., Montana, USA

mindat Locality ID: 43827
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-43827.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Olson Gulch Mining District, Deer Lodge Co., Montana, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 23
Child Localities:
Antelope Mine (Antelope & Chain Mine)
Big Bear Prospect (Frank & Paddy)
Bishop Iron Deposit
Black Chief Iron Mine
Bresnahan And Fenner Occurrence
Bung Your Eye Mine (Grey Rock Mine)
Cameron Mine
Carbonator Prospect (Carbonate)
Gold Crown Mine (Mayflower Mine)
Jetty Mine (Balkan Lode)
Lucky Arrowhead Occurrence
NW Garrity Mountain Limestone Sample Occurrence
Olson Gulch
Pay Day (Heaphy No. 2; Rock Rabbit)
Rambler
Rich Strike
Sager-Murphy Prospect
Silver Chain Mine
Silver Prospect (MRDS - 10013214)
Smith Prospect
Some Mine
Stormway-Morgan Evans Mine
Warm Springs Limestone Sample Occurrence

Latitude: 46°11'11"N
Longitude: 113°5'32"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.186388888889,-113.09222222222

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.

Amphibole	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Fluorite
Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Actinolite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Clinozoisite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Litharge ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Semseyite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tremolite ()*

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: Al As Au Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H Mg O Pb S Sb Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Diaspore Epidote Fluorite
Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Spinel Tetrahedrite

24 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2	227849,227859	3419
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	227855	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	227867	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	227849,227850	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	227867	27198
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	227859	1025
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	2	227849,227851	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	227849	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	227855	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	227846,227863,227864	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	227850	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	227851	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	227849,227850,227863	14640
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	1	227850	1507
Litharge ()*	None	PbO	1	227855	139
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	227849,227851	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	227864	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	227854,227863,227864,227867	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	11	227846,227847,227850,227852,227854,227859,227860,227862,227863,227864,227867	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	7	227847,227850,227853,227859,227860,227862,227865	4894
Semseyite ()*	None	Pb₉Sb₈S₂₁	1	227855	165
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	227863	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	227846,227863	5317
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	227850	2562

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R070577	Jetty Mine (Balkan Lode), Olson Gulch Mining District, Deer Lodge Co., Montana, USA	https://rruff.info/R070577

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