Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Sixes River District, Curry Co., Oregon, USA

mindat Locality ID: 50148
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50148.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sixes River District, Curry Co., Oregon, USA": 30
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 30

Number of Child Localities: 30
Child Localities:
Arch Rock Lode Occurrence
Bear Cat Occurrence
Big Ben Prospect (Harrison; Rusty Butte)
Big Sunshine Placer (Elk River Placers; Bill Johnson Placer)
Butcher Hill Quartz Occurrence
Clapshaw Prospect (Clapshaw Prospect Sixes River)
Combination Mine
Corbin Property
Crystal Creek Manganese Occurrence
Crystal Creek Occurrence
Divelbiss No. 2
Guerin Claim
Hydro Sixes Mining Company Prospect
Inman Mine (Oregon Engineering Company; Sixes River Placers Company)
Little Otter Placer (Sixes River Placer)
Madden Mine (Blanco Mine; Pioneer)
McCormick Mining & Mineral Company
Rusty Gulch
Section 27 Gold Prospect
Siskiyou Mining Company Prospect (Inman Mine)
Sixes Beach Placer (Sixes Mine)
Sixes River Placers (Little Otter; Otter Creek; Inman; Sixes River Placer; Hydro Sixes; Smith & Robinson; Wagner; Guerin; Wallace & Hanly; Elgin; Way Thompson Flat)
Sixes River Placers (Thompson; Flat; Wagner; Smith & Robinson; Hydro Sixes; Elgin; Way; Little Otter; Otter Creek; Wallace & Hanly; Guerin; Inman)
Smith And Robinson Claims (Sixes River Placers)
Sunrise Gold Mining Company
Trails End Prospect
Wagner Claims (Sixes River Placers)
Wallace & Hanly Claims (Wallace & Hadley Claims; Sixes River Placers)
War Baby Occurrence
Way Claims (Thompson Flat)

Latitude: 42°47'52"N
Longitude: 124°18'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.797777777778,-124.30444444444

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.

Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	None	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Zircon

Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Osmium ()*	Platinum ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 C Ca Cr Cu Fe H Hg O Os Pb Pt S Si Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote None Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	257120	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	257120	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	257120	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	2	257128,257143	3902
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	257128	2600
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	257128	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	257120,257124	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	257120,257121,257122,257125,257133,257136,257138	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	257128	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	257128	14899
Osmium ()*	None	Os	2	257125,257128	169
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	1	257128	485
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	257119,257120,257124	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	257120,257124	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	257120	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	257124	21482
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	257128	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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