Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Fryer 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: 47597
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-47597.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Fryer Hill, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Agassiz Mine
Amie Mine
Big Pittsburg Mine
Chrysolite Workings
Climax Mine
Denver City Mine
Dunkin Mine
Hibernia Mine
Little Chief Mine
Little Pittsburg Mine
Little Sliver Mine
Matchless Mine
May Queen Mine
New Discovery Mine
Robert E. Lee Mine

Latitude: 39°15'12"N
Longitude: 106°16'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.253333333333,-106.27333333333

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.

Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Copper	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Rutile
Scheelite	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Baryte ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Iodargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*
Sauconite ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
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 Ba C Ca Cl Fe H I Mg Mn Mo Na O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Copper None Not in a structural group Pyrite Rocksalt Rutile
Scheelite Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Wurtzite

16 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
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	41.3	37.9	2	191461,191462	11547
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	12	191443,191444,191445,191446,191447,191448,191449,191450,191451,191456,191459,191461	4979
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	41.3	37.9	13	191443,191444,191445,191446,191447,191448,191449,191450,191451,191456,191459,191461,191462	1382
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	41.3	37.9	1	191461	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	41.3	37.9	13	191443,191444,191445,191446,191447,191448,191449,191450,191451,191454,191456,191458,191459	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	41.3	37.9	2	191460,191462	1689
Iodargyrite ()*	Wurtzite	AgI	41.3	37.9	1	191445	180
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	41.3	37.9	1	191459	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	41.3	37.9	1	191457	3106
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	1	191459	1711
Sauconite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Zn₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O	41.3	37.9	1	191461	56
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	1	191459	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	41.3	37.9	1	191459	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	41.3	37.9	2	191460,191462	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	41.3	37.9	1	191459	21482
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	41.3	37.9	1	191456	1655

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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