Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Granite District, Chaffee Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 49779
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-49779.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Granite District, Chaffee Co., Colorado, USA": 56
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 52

Number of Child Localities: 38
Child Localities:
Aztec
Bell Of Granite
Betsy
Buck
Clear Creek Reservoir Area
Driscoll
Elco Placer
Eleven O'clock
Florence Extension
Franklin
Gold Basin
Gold Bottom Placer
Golden Cache
Good Hope
H And H
Hayden Placer
Hyoraulic
Independent
International
Little Troy
Lost Canyon
Majenta
New Year
Pantle
Penn Nevada Dredge
Raeanna
Spring
Tiger Lilly
Trafalgar
Twin Lakes Area
Unidentified Gold Placer (MRDS - 10018349)
Unidentified Gold Placer (MRDS - 10094768)
Unnamed Arkansas River Placer Deposit (MRDS - 10018350)
Unnamed Arkansas River Placer Deposits (MRDS - 10018011)
Unnamed Lower Arkansas River Placer Deposit (MRDS - 10091451)
US Gold Suction Dredge
Washington
Young America Placer

Latitude: 39°2'31"N
Longitude: 106°15'57"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.041944444444,-106.26583333333

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.

Copper	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz

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 Fe Mo O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Molybdite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	12	185412,185413,185430,185441,185442,185443,185444,185455,185456,185457,185458,185459	30554
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	4	185447,185449,185453,185454	5800
Molybdite ()*	None	MoO₃	1	185447	140
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	185453	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	185453	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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