Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Canyon Creek, Coeur D'Alene District, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA

mindat Locality ID: 45832
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-45832.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Canyon Creek, Coeur D'Alene District, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Black Bear Fraction Mine
Greenhill-Cleveland Mine
Hecla Mine
Helena-Frisco Mine (Black Bear Mine; Frisco Mine; Gem Of The Mountain Mine)
Hercules Mine
Marsh Mine (Cooney Group)
Standard-Mammoth Mine (Greenhill - Cleveland; Mace Group)
Tiger-Poorman Mine (Tiger Mine; Poorman Mine)

Latitude: 47°31'18"N
Longitude: 115°49'45"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.521666666667,-115.82916666667

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	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite
Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Linarite	Marcasite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrochlore
Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite	Vesuvianite

Actinolite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Anthophyllite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*
Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bindheimite ()*	Boulangerite ()*	Bournonite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*
Galena ()*	Hematite ()*	Lead ()*	Linarite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Marcasite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Nontronite ()*	Plattnerite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Siderite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Vesuvianite ()*
Wulfenite ()*

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 Al As Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Mg Mn Mo Na Ni O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite
Copper Corundum Epidote Linarite Marcasite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrochlore
Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite Vesuvianite

36 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	1	210867	3419
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	210868	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	2	210864,210871	3092
Anthophyllite ()*	Amphibole	Mg₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	210868	718
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	210870	9052
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	210870	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	210870	11547
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	2	210868,210870	450
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	1	210870	843
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃	2	210868,210869	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	210866,210868,210870	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	3	210868,210870,210871	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	8	210864,210865,210866,210867,210868,210869,210870,210871	27198
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	210867	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	210867	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	8	210864,210865,210866,210867,210868,210869,210870,210871	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	210868,210870,210871	14640
Lead ()*	Copper	Pb	1	210870	192
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	1	210868	987
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	5	210864,210867,210868,210870,210871	14899
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	3	210864,210868,210869	5674
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	1	210868	633
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	210870	471
Plattnerite ()*	Rutile	PbO₂	2	210868,210870	158
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	210870	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	8	210864,210865,210866,210867,210868,210869,210870,210871	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	210868	3106
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	3	210864,210868,210870	1725
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	8	210864,210865,210866,210867,210868,210869,210870,210871	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	210864,210865,210866,210867,210870,210871	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	7	210864,210866,210867,210868,210869,210870,210871	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	3	210868,210870,210871	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	8	210864,210865,210866,210867,210868,210869,210870,210871	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	4	210866,210868,210870,210871	5317
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1	210867	1395
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	210868	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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