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Locality Name:
Red Lion Mining District, Granite Co., Montana, USA

mindat Locality ID: 44080
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-44080.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Red Lion Mining District, Granite Co., Montana, USA": 35
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 35

Number of Child Localities: 35
Child Localities:
American Flag Mine
Autumn Placer Claim
Big Bill
Big Chief Lode Occurrence
Bronze Lode Occurrence
Butte And Anaconda Mining Company Occurrence
Carlin-One Dollar Mine
Cincinnati Mine
Confident Placer Group (Castle 1 & 2 Placer; Radar Placer)
Delta Lode Claim
Flint Creek Mine (Alliance Mine)
Glittering Hill
Golden Eagle Mine
Golden Jubilee Mine
Greater New York Mine
Grubstake Mine
Hannah Mine
Julie Mine
Letus No. 1 Lode Claim
Lila Dixon Mine
Little George Placer Claim
Mickey Mine (Garrett Mine)
Modoc Mine
Montana Mine
Mountain View Mine
N. Fork-Flint Creek
Porter Mine
Radar Lode Occurrence
Red Lion Mine
Rice And Wegener (Lila Dixon Wedge; New York Claims)
Summer Creek Prospect
Twilight Cyanide Plant Occurrence
Twin Peaks Mine
Willow Placer
Yellow Metal Mine

Latitude: 46°15'35"N
Longitude: 113°11'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.259722222222,-113.195

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.

Arsenic	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Melonite	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite
Quartz	Rutile	Scheelite	Spinel

Baryte ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Powellite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Sylvanite ()*

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 Au Ba Bi C Ca Cu Fe Mg Mn Mo O S Si Te W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Melonite Molybdenite None Pyrite
Quartz Rutile Scheelite Spinel

16 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)	1	228775	11547
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	228763	1966
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	228775	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	228769,228774,228775,228781	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	228775	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	228762	9895
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	19	228754,228756,228757,228760,228765,228766,228767,228768,228769,228771,228772,228773,228774,228775,228776,228780,228781,228786,228787	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	228769,228781	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	228767,228769,228781	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	228785	5800
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	1	228785	494
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	8	228763,228765,228767,228769,228775,228776,228781,228787	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	228774	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	10	228753,228763,228765,228767,228769,228772,228775,228776,228781,228787	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	228785	4894
Sylvanite ()*	Melonite	AgAuTe₄	1	228765	337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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