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Locality Name:
Lower Grave Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA


mindat Locality ID: 50182
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50182.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lower Grave Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Archer Placer (Carnegie Placer)
Benson Placer
Boulder Manganese (Mineral Ledge; McTimmonds)
Butte Creek Placer
Copper Queen Mine
Daisy Mine (Hammersley Mine; Hamersley; Little Daisy)
Goff Placer
Graves Creek Chromite Mine (Epperly Chromite Mine)
Hayden Mine (Little Dandy Mine)
Iverson And Pohlman Placer (Miller Placers)
John Hall Group (Mills Prospect)
Klum Placer
Klum Placer Mine
Lewis Placer
New Eldorado Placer
Star Mine
Steam Beer Placer
Stove Pipe Mine
Three L's Placer (Yokum Placer; Four L's Placer)
Vindicator Placer

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Au C Ca Cr Cu Fe H O Pt S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CalciteChalcopyriteClinozoisiteCopperEpidoteNickelineNonePyriteQuartzSpinel

9 IMA Minerals at location:
Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chromite  (*)Epidote  (*)Gold  (*)
Platinum  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)125999027770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2125998927198
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O412599923902
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)12599908173
Gold  (*)CopperAu18259985,259986,259988,259989,259990,259991,259993,259994,259995,259996,259997,259998,259999,260000,260001,260002,260003,26000430554
Platinum  (*)CopperPt1259986485
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22259989,25999039462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S812599899056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22259990,26000061156


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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