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Locality Name:
Hub Mine, Lava Creek District, Butte Co., Idaho, USA

mindat Locality ID: 45416
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-45416.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hub Mine, Lava Creek District, Butte Co., Idaho, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Acanthite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Columbite	Copper	Malachite	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Galena ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Hübnerite ()*	Malachite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Siderite ()*
Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*

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 C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mn O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag As C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mn O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Columbite Copper Malachite Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

24 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1382
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3846
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1689
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	469
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	12537
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	716
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1711
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	586

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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