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Locality Name:
Lower Hot Springs Mining District (Norris Mining District), Madison Co., Montana, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 70
Youngest recorded age at locality: 70

mindat Locality ID: 50281
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50281.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lower Hot Springs Mining District (Norris Mining District), Madison Co., Montana, USA": 28
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 28

Number of Child Localities: 28
Child Localities:
Aurora Gulch Placer
Badger Nos. 1 & 2
Bayles
Betty Mae (Betty May)
Big Jack Claim
Birdie
Black Prince
Boaz Mine
Bull Moose
Calamont Claims
Emperor Prospect
Galena Mine
Josephine Mine
Lexington
Lipton Mine
Madison Group Claims
Madisonian (Hendricks)
Mohican
Montana Boy
Morning Star Mine
Norwegian Gulch Placers
Red Bluff
Red Rose
Revenue Mine
South Meadow Creek Placers
Tobacco Root Mine
Washington Bar Placer
Washington Creek Group Placers

Latitude: 45°32'30"N
Longitude: 111°43'6"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.541666666667,-111.71833333333

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	Allophane	Amorphous	Aragonite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Bornite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Au C Cu Fe H Mn O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Amorphous Aragonite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Malachite None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite

18 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	70	70	1	231019	2793
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	70	70	3	231008,231015,231020	5516
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	70	70	1	231009	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	70	70	2	231008,231015	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	70	70	4	231008,231013,231015,231020	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	70	70	3	231009,231015,231020	3531
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	70	70	1	231015	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	70	70	6	231008,231011,231016,231019,231020,231025	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	70	70	5	231009,231019,231024,231025,231028	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	70	70	2	231013,231020	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	70	70	1	231013	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	70	70	4	231008,231009,231015,231020	12537
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	70	70	1	231025	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	70	70	8	231009,231011,231013,231015,231016,231019,231020,231025	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	70	70	3	231015,231020,231027	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	70	70	5	231009,231019,231020,231025,231027	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	70	70	2	231015,231019	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	70	70	1	231019	5317

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Mo-00186	70	70								Yes		Molybdenite, Powellite, Wulfenite	Mo	23236	Madison Co., Montana, USA	Madison County	Gammons et al. (2006)	10.1007/s10230-006-0113-7	MWE25_70

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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