Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Bumble Bee, Black Canyon District, Wickenburg Mts, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

mindat Locality ID: 49085
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-49085.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bumble Bee, Black Canyon District, Wickenburg Mts, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Bi-Metals Mine (Snaffle Mine; Snaffle Claims; Sneffell Mine; Santa Rosa Mine; Zeno Property; Oro Mining Co. Property)
Bill Arp Mine (Bill Arp Patent MS 3365 Claim; Rainy Day Claim)
Black Canyon
Black Canyon (Black Canyon Creek)
Blanciana Mine (Blanciana Prospect)
Bland Mine (Bland Prospect)
Eighty-Eight Mine
Gillespie Mine
Gloryana Mine (Gloryanna Mine; Gloriana Mine; Valencia Mine; Nigger Brown Mine; Nigger Brown Prospect; Valencienne Mine)
Last Chance Mine
Roosevelt Mine
Run And Hide Mine (R And H Mine; R & H Mine; Silver Patented Claim 3882)

Latitude: 34°11'53"N
Longitude: 112°11'10"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.198055555556,-112.18611111111

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.

Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel

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 O Pb S Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Ankerite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	149122	3092
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	149119,149122	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	149120,149123	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	149119,149126,149128,149129,149130,149132,149133	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	149122,149125,149126	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	149122,149125,149126	14899
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	149119,149120,149122,149133	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	149123	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	149122	5614
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	149119,149123	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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