Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 41.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 37.9

mindat Locality ID: 46923
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-46923.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Aetna Mine (Ætna Mine)
Brookland Mine
Carbonate Workings
Catalpa Mine
Crescent Mine
Evening Star Mine
Forsaken Mine
Glass-Pendery Mine
Henriette Mine
Lower Waterloo Mine
Maid Of Erin Mine
Morning Star Mine
Niles-Augusta Mine
Wild Cat Mine
Wolftone Mine
Yankee Doodle Mine

Latitude: 39°14'50"N
Longitude: 106°16'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.247222222222,-106.27833333333

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.

Alunite	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Coronadite	Corundum	Descloizite
Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite
Wurtzite

Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Birnessite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Cryptomelane ()*	Descloizite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*
Iodargyrite ()*	Plumbojarosite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sauconite ()*	Scheelite ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H I K Mg Mn Na O P Pb S Si V W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Copper Coronadite Corundum Descloizite
Gypsum None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite
Wurtzite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	41.3	37.9	1	191431	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	1	191435	3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	41.3	37.9	2	191421,191435	11547
Birnessite ()*	None	(Na,Ca,K)_0.6(Mn⁴⁺,Mn³⁺)₂O₄·1.5H₂O	41.3	37.9	1	191435	178
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	3	191426,191431,191435	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	12	191417,191420,191421,191422,191423,191424,191426,191427,191430,191432,191435,191436	4979
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	41.3	37.9	1	191426	1382
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	41.3	37.9	1	191431	3846
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	41.3	37.9	1	191435	599
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	41.3	37.9	4	191417,191426,191432,191435	378
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	41.3	37.9	8	191420,191421,191424,191426,191430,191431,191432,191436	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	41.3	37.9	10	191417,191420,191424,191426,191427,191430,191431,191432,191435,191436	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	41.3	37.9	1	191435	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	41.3	37.9	2	191424,191435	14640
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	41.3	37.9	3	191429,191431,191435	1689
Iodargyrite ()*	Wurtzite	AgI	41.3	37.9	2	191426,191432	180
Plumbojarosite ()*	Alunite	Pb_0.5Fe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	41.3	37.9	2	191430,191436	477
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	41.3	37.9	3	191426,191431,191435	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	41.3	37.9	2	191426,191435	3106
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	41.3	37.9	1	191426	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	41.3	37.9	9	191417,191420,191424,191426,191430,191431,191432,191435,191436	61156
Sauconite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Zn₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	41.3	37.9	1	191436	56
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	41.3	37.9	1	191435	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	41.3	37.9	1	191431	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	2	191431,191435	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	41.3	37.9	2	191431,191435	21482

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedznpb-00472	41.3	37.9	39.6±1.7							Yes				3652	Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA	Leadville	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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