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Locality Name:
Providence, Big Bug District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 48171
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-48171.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Providence, Big Bug District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Belcher Mine (Great Belcher Mine; Belcher Claim; Belcher Patent MS 123 Claim; Red Rock Mines; Red Rock Mine; Red Rock Patent MS 1225 Claim)
Big Bug Creek Gulch
Copper Dike Mine
Lottie Mine (Oriental Mining And Milling Property)
Merchants Home Mine (Block Estates; The First Home Patented Claim MS 1807)
Postmaster Mine (Oriental Mining Co. Property)
Sterling Mine (Sterling Claim; Sterling And Binghamton MS 1316 Claims)
Taylor Property

Latitude: 34°26'40"N
Longitude: 112°19'46"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.444444444444,-112.32944444444

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.

Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	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: Au C Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	147611	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	147611	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	147607,147609	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	5	147607,147609,147611,147612,147614	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	147611	3846
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	147613,147614,147616	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	147607,147609,147612,147614	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	147611	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	147607,147609,147614	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	147607,147609,147614	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	147607,147614	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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