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Locality Name:
Galena District (Henson Creek District), Hinsdale Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 50038
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50038.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Galena District (Henson Creek District), Hinsdale Co., Colorado, USA": 36
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 35

Number of Child Localities: 34
Child Localities:
Ajax No. 2
Bess
Big Casino Mine (Big Casino No. 2 Mill Site; MS 69b; Big Casino No. 2; MS 836; Patented Claims: Big Casino No. 2; MS 69a)
California Mine
Capitol City Mine (Panhandle; Old Glory; Laddie Boy; Sunny Chief)
Chord
Copper Mountain
Czar Mine (Broker; MS 11149; Czarina; MS 1270; Czar; MS 2008)
Czarina Mine
Dolly Varden Mine (Varden Belle Mine; Patented Claim: Dolly Varden; MS 172)
Eagle And Mary Alice Claims
Excelsior Mine (Patented Claim: Excelsior; MS 5184)
Frank Hough Mine (Hough Mine; Patented Claim: Frank Hough; MS 549)
Gallic - Vulcan Group (Weatherhorn)
Golconda Mine
Henderson Gold Mine
Henson Creek-Ute Creek
Highland Chief Mine (Wall Street; MS 16478a; Empire Chief Mine; Mathison; MS 16479a)
Hoosier Boy Mine (Unpatented Claims: Isabel R.; Little Joe; Red Bird; Patented Claim: Adelia; MS 700; Blue Bird)
Lellie Mine
Mohawk
Moro Mine (Moro Extension; Moro Tunnel Site; Ajax Limited; MS 13811; Moro-Ajax Mine; Moro Mill Site; Patented Claims: Moro Limited; MS 13811; Unpatented Claims: Ajax No. 2)
Oro - Fino Tunnels
Palmetto Mine (Chimney Corner; MS 496)
Pearl And Ruby Groups (Ruby; MS 12860; Patented Claims: Pearl; MS 12860)
Pride Of America Mine
Silver Chord Mine (Patented Claim: Silver Chord; MS 1251)
St Louis
Treasure Hill Spar Claim (Patented Claims: Treasure Hill Spar; MS 1085)
Unknown Copper (MRDS - 10142791)
Unknown Gold (MRDS - 10118184)
Unknown Lead (MRDS - 10263893)
Woodstock Prospect
Yellow Medicine Mine (Mountain Bell; MS 5187; Patented Claims: Yellow Medicine; MS 5187)

Latitude: 38°0'5"N
Longitude: 107°29'5"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.001388888889,-107.48472222222

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.

Acanthite	Alunite	Amorphous	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chalcostibite	Clay
Copper	Covellite	Enargite	Fluorite	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Melonite	Mica	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Acanthite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*
Covellite ()*	Emplectite ()*	Enargite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hessite ()*
Jarosite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*
Petzite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*
Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	Stromeyerite ()*
Sylvanite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranophane-α ()*
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 As Au Ba Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mn Mo O P Pb S Sb Si Te U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Alunite Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Chalcostibite Clay
Copper Covellite Enargite Fluorite Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite Melonite Mica None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

41 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	3	190240,190249,190251	2793
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	2	190247,190251	2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	190251	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	4	190239,190245,190247,190259	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	3	190231,190232,190238	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	190227,190231,190232,190239,190254	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	190251	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	5	190231,190232,190235,190238,190247	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	17	190227,190228,190233,190235,190237,190238,190239,190240,190243,190244,190245,190247,190249,190251,190252,190258,190259	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	190237	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	190247,190251	4165
Emplectite ()*	Chalcostibite	CuBiS₂	1	190259	246
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	190238	910
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	190239	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	190239	9617
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	2	190227,190252	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	18	190226,190227,190231,190232,190233,190235,190237,190238,190239,190240,190243,190244,190249,190250,190252,190254,190258,190259	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3	190239,190249,190258	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	190251	6890
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	2	190238,190239	804
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	190251	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	190239	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	190251	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	190254	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	190242	2994
Petzite ()*	None	Ag₃AuTe₂	1	190239	409
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	190235	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	13	190228,190233,190237,190238,190239,190240,190243,190247,190249,190251,190252,190258,190259	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	21	190226,190227,190228,190233,190235,190237,190238,190239,190240,190242,190243,190244,190245,190247,190249,190250,190251,190252,190254,190258,190259	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	3	190227,190245,190254	1711
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	7	190231,190232,190237,190239,190251,190252,190258	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	190251	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	19	190226,190227,190228,190233,190235,190237,190238,190239,190240,190243,190244,190245,190247,190249,190250,190251,190252,190258,190259	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	2	190235,190249	586
Stromeyerite ()*	None	CuAgS	2	190231,190232	332
Sylvanite ()*	Melonite	AgAuTe₄	1	190239	337
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	190259	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	5	190235,190237,190238,190247,190251	5317
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	190250	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	1	190236	890
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	190251	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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