Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Clancy-Lump Gulch Mining District, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 135
Youngest recorded age at locality: 5.3

mindat Locality ID: 50265
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50265.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Clancy-Lump Gulch Mining District, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA": 65
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 61

Number of Child Localities: 61
Child Localities:
Argonne Mine
Beaver's Prospect
Bell Mine
Black Bear Occurrence
Borderline Prospect
Bosphorus Occurrence
Buffalo Creek Placer (Weber Placer)
Cannon
Carbonate Chief Mine
Corral Creek Prospect
Corral Gulch Mine (Leu Mine)
Elkhorn Mining Company Prospect
Fleming Mine
Forest Mine (Forrest Mine)
Free Coinage Mine (Little Alma Mine)
Frohner Mine
G. Washington Mine (Member Of Presidents Group)
Good Friday Mine
Hinman Occurrence
Kain Quarry
King Solomon Mine
King Solomon Ridge Group (President Group; Hinman Mine; Fourty-Niner Mine)
Lahey Quartz Deposit
Lava Mountain
Lava Mountain Prospect
Little Nell Mine (Little Nellie Mine)
Liverpool Mine
Loeber Mine
Lone Eagle Quartz Mine (Lone Eagle Mine)
Lump Gulch
Lump Gulch Placer
Maggie Mine
Mammoth Mine
Mary Tait Prospect
McNary And Cline Occurrence
Meadow Mine (Haab)
Miljour No. 3 Lode Prospect
Mineral Hill Mine (Yellowstone Prospect)
Mockingbird Mine
Montana Mine
Muskegon Mine
Nellie Grant Mine
Newburgh Mine (Fleming)
Panama Mine
President Group Mine
Rachael
Rhoades Mine
Roosevelt Mine
Sheep Mountain
Spruce Hills
Umatilla Prospect
Unnamed Lead (MRDS - 10270343)
Unnamed Lead Mine (MRDS - 10124635)
Unnamed Lead Prospect (MRDS - 10196668)
Unnamed Lead Prospect (MRDS - 10245800)
Unnamed Uranium Occurrence (MRDS - 10245691)
W. Wilson Mine (Liverpool Mine)
War Eagle Mine
Warm Spring
White Pine Mine (Genevieve)
Yama Group

Latitude: 46°27'1"N
Longitude: 112°3'8"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.450277777778,-112.05222222222

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	Amorphous	Aragonite	Autunite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite
Fluorite	Kaolinite	Malachite	Meta-autunite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Phosphuranylite	Polybasite	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Autunite ()*	Baryte ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*	Metatorbernite ()*	Metauranocircite-I ()*
Metazeunerite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Opal ()*	Uranophane-β ()*
Phosphuranylite ()*	Polybasite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Uraninite ()*	Uranocircite-II ()*	Uranophane-α ()*

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 C Ca Cu Fe H K Mn Mo O P Pb S Sb Si U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amorphous Aragonite Autunite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite
Fluorite Kaolinite Malachite Meta-autunite Mica Molybdenite None Phosphuranylite Polybasite Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

34 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	60	5.3	4	229287,229289,229297,229320	2793
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂			2	229287,229297	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	60	5.3	1	229320	3250
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	60	5.3	1	229320	1272
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	229297	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	82.44	62.44	3	229287,229288,229309	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	60	5.3	12	229262,229268,229273,229288,229291,229296,229299,229303,229320,229321,229322,229323	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	60	5.3	2	229288,229320	4165
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	82.44	5.3	24	229262,229268,229273,229275,229280,229284,229286,229287,229288,229289,229291,229296,229297,229299,229303,229305,229309,229311,229313,229320,229321,229322,229323,229324	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	82.44	62.44	15	229260,229266,229274,229275,229280,229286,229288,229292,229294,229301,229302,229303,229305,229309,229324	30554
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	60	5.3	1	229320	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	60	5.3	2	229299,229320	12537
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	60	5.3	1	229320	388
Metatorbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	60	5.3	1	229320	443
Metauranocircite-I ()*	None	Ba(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	60	5.3	1	229320	38
Metazeunerite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	60	5.3	1	229320	182
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			3	229280,229322,229323	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	60	5.3	2	229288,229320	17380
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	60	5.3	1	229320	2994
Uranophane-β ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	60	5.3	1	229320	144
Phosphuranylite ()*	Phosphuranylite	KCa(H₃O)₃(UO₂)₇(PO₄)₄O₄·8H₂O	60	5.3	1	229320	182
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]			1	229288	716
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃			1	229288	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃			1	229297	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	82.44	5.3	20	229260,229262,229268,229275,229281,229284,229287,229289,229291,229297,229299,229303,229305,229309,229311,229313,229320,229321,229322,229323	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	135	5.3	23	229260,229270,229273,229275,229276,229280,229281,229284,229286,229288,229289,229291,229297,229299,229302,229303,229305,229309,229311,229313,229320,229323,229324	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)			1	229305	1711
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	82.44	62.44	2	229280,229309	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	82.44	5.3	20	229260,229273,229275,229280,229284,229286,229289,229291,229296,229297,229299,229303,229305,229309,229311,229313,229320,229322,229323,229324	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃			1	229303	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			5	229280,229288,229297,229303,229323	5317
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	135	5.3	4	229276,229281,229289,229320	2718
Uranocircite-II ()*	None	Ba(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10H₂O	60	5.3	1	229320	89
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	60	5.3	2	229260,229320	890

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Giersdorf_00000882	Boulder batholith in western Montana extends from a few miles south of Helena to about 20 miles south of Butte. The northern part of the hatholith includes most of the batholith north of the latitude of Boulder and a narrow strip near the east margin of the batholith south of Boulder. This area lies between the Elkhorn mountains on the east and the rather broad, high-level surface making up the Continental Divide on the west. Although the area is mountainous, the topography is not rugged but is characterized by smoothly rounded ridges commonlya bout 1,000 feet above the major valleys. Most of the higher valleys were occupied by glaciers in the Pleistocene epoch, but typical alpine cirques are rare. The localities listed here are the Uranium deposits found within the Boulder Batholith.

Age ID

Locality Notes

Giersdorf_00000882

Boulder batholith in western Montana extends from a few miles south of Helena to about 20 miles south of Butte. The northern part of the hatholith includes most of the batholith north of the latitude of Boulder and a narrow strip near the east margin of the batholith south of Boulder. This area lies between the Elkhorn mountains on the east and the rather broad, high-level surface making up the Continental Divide on the west. Although the area is mountainous, the topography is not rugged but is characterized by smoothly rounded ridges commonlya bout 1,000 feet above the major valleys. Most of the higher valleys were occupied by glaciers in the Pleistocene epoch, but typical alpine cirques are rare. The localities listed here are the Uranium deposits found within the Boulder Batholith.

5 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Sample Source	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00942_206_238	50	50	50	206_238		uraninite, pitchblende		161573	G. Washington Mine (Member Of Presidents Group), Clancy-Lump Gulch Mining District, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA		USGS-U-Th-Pb		USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00942_207_206	135	135	135	207_206		uraninite, pitchblende		161573	G. Washington Mine (Member Of Presidents Group), Clancy-Lump Gulch Mining District, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA		USGS-U-Th-Pb		USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00942_207_235	55	55	55	207_235		uraninite, pitchblende		161573	G. Washington Mine (Member Of Presidents Group), Clancy-Lump Gulch Mining District, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA		USGS-U-Th-Pb		USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-Rb-Sr-02859	82.44	62.44	72.44±10	Rb-Sr	age of intrusion	biotite		164311	Roosevelt Mine, Clancy-Lump Gulch Mining District, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA		USGS-Rb-Sr		USGS-Rb-Sr
Giersdorf_00000882	60	5.3	60-paleocene			alaskite	U	166261	W. Wilson Mine (Liverpool Mine), Clancy-Lump Gulch Mining District, Jefferson Co., Montana, USA	W. Wilson Mine	Becraft (1956)	10.2113/gsecongeo.51.4.362	EG51_362	The age for the Uranium deposits of the Boulder Batholith are described as being post-Alaskite of 60 Ma and pre-Dacite, which is described as being early Oligocene by one of the author's references up to Miocene by another.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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