Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Chalk Creek District, Chaffee Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 49783
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-49783.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Chalk Creek District, Chaffee Co., Colorado, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Allie Belle Mine
Big Bonanza Mine
Black Hawk
Chalk Cliffs
Chalk Creek Canyon
Flora Bell
Hortense Hot Spring
Kentucky Mine
Kickapoo Mine
Little Bonanza Mine
Little Jesse Mine
Mary Murphy Mine
Matilda
Mount Princeton Hot Spring
North Pole Mine
Overland Mine
Portland Mine
St Elmo Queen Mine
Stanley Mine
Stonewall Shaft
Teresa C. Mine
Tom Payne Mine

Latitude: 38°40'18"N
Longitude: 106°17'5"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.671666666667,-106.28472222222

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.

Allophane	Amorphous	Aragonite	Baryte	Beryl	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Fluorite	Gypsum
Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Beryl ()*	Burkeite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Kogarkoite ()*	Laumontite ()*
Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Trona ()*

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: Al As Ba Be C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Mn Na O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Cu Fe S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amorphous Aragonite Baryte Beryl Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Fluorite Gypsum
Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite
Tetrahedrite

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2	185323,185326	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	185323	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	185320,185323,185324	11547
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	1	185316	4286
Burkeite ()*	None	Na₄(SO₄)(CO₃)	2	185318,185325	47
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6	185318,185323,185324,185325,185329,185331	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	185314,185323	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	16	185312,185313,185314,185317,185319,185320,185321,185322,185323,185327,185328,185329,185330,185331,185332,185333	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	185323,185332	3531
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	3	185318,185323,185324	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	17	185312,185313,185314,185317,185319,185320,185321,185322,185323,185324,185327,185328,185329,185330,185331,185332,185333	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	185327	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl	1	185318	1398
Kogarkoite ()*	None	Na₃(SO₄)F	2	185318,185325	14
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	185315	1271
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	185323,185332	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	185312,185324	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	2	185318,185325	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	18	185312,185313,185314,185317,185319,185320,185321,185322,185323,185324,185326,185327,185328,185329,185330,185331,185332,185333	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	185323	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	17	185312,185313,185314,185317,185319,185320,185321,185322,185323,185326,185327,185328,185329,185330,185331,185332,185333	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	5	185314,185323,185328,185329,185332	1711
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	4	185314,185323,185328,185332	969
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	3	185314,185323,185332	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	16	185312,185313,185314,185317,185319,185320,185321,185322,185323,185327,185328,185329,185330,185331,185332,185333	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	0		1803
Trona ()*	None	Na₃(HCO₃)(CO₃)·2H₂O	1	185318	129

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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