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Locality Name:
Mineral Hill Mining District (Pony Mining District), Madison Co., Montana, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 85
Youngest recorded age at locality: 70

mindat Locality ID: 50283
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-50283.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mineral Hill Mining District (Pony Mining District), Madison Co., Montana, USA": 44
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 43

Number of Child Localities: 41
Child Localities:
Antelope Chromite Deposit
Arizona
Atlantic And Pacific Mine (A & P Mine; Atlantic & Pacific Mine; Atlantic Pacific Mine)
Beaverhead National Forest
Ben Harrison Fraction
Bessie And Golden Wave Mine
Big Antelope Creek- South Placers
Boss Tweed Mine
Carmichael Claims
Clipper Mine
Constellation Deposit
Dividend Lode Mine
Garnet Mine
Gilliam Vermiculite Deposit (Pony Vermiculite Deposit)
Harrison Iron Occurrence
Iron Occurrence (MRDS - 10221729)
Lead Ore Mine
Lone Wolf And Cataract Mine
Mineral Hill
Mountain Cliff
Ned
Never Sweat
North Willow Creek
Old Joe Mine (Mount Jefferson Lodge Group)
Oregon Prospect
Pony Creek Placer
Pony Iron Deposit
Pony Mine
Pony Vermiculite Occurrence
Rasberry Mine
Riverside Mine
Scalded Cat Mine
South Boulder Creek Occurrence
Strawberry-Keystone Mine (Strawberry Mine; Keystone Mine)
Unnamed Feldspar Deposit (MRDS - 10221651)
Unnamed Feldspar Deposit (MRDS - 10270038)
Unnamed Gold Mine (MRDS - 10221996)
Viking Mine
Whip-Poor-Will Mine (Whippoorwill Mine; Parker & Flint)
White Pine
Willow Creek Claim

Latitude: 45°40'18"N
Longitude: 111°56'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 45.671666666667,-111.93694444444

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.

Aragonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Kaolinite
Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite
Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Titanite	Vesuvianite

Andradite ()*	Anorthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Clintonite ()*	Diopside ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Grossular ()*	Hematite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Malachite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Powellite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Spinel ()*	Titanite ()*	Vermiculite ()*
Vesuvianite ()*

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 Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Si Ti W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Cu F Fe Mo S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Kaolinite
Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite
Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Titanite Vesuvianite

26 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
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	70	70	1	231081	1534
Anorthite ()*	Feldspar	Ca(Al₂Si₂O₈)	70	70	1	231101	1036
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	70	70	1	231101	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	70	70	2	231081,231101	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	70	70	1	231101	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	85	75	0		27198
Clintonite ()*	Mica Clay	CaAlMg₂(SiAl₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	70	70	1	231081	86
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	70	70	1	231081	4135
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	85	75	0		9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	85	70	2	231080,231087	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	85	70	6	231075,231077,231080,231087,231091,231108	30554
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	70	70	1	231081	1544
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	70	70	1	231108	14640
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	70	70	1	231101	5591
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	70	70	1	231101	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	85	75	0		5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	70	70	1	231101	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	70	70	1	231101	2349
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	70	70	2	231075,231090	494
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	85	70	7	231075,231077,231080,231087,231091,231101,231108	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	85	70	8	231075,231077,231080,231081,231087,231091,231101,231108	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	70	70	1	231101	4894
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	70	70	1	231081	1934
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	70	70	1	231101	4899
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	70	70	1	231081	652
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	70	70	1	231081	1395

2 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
	NAVDAT-76292	85	75	80±5					76292						161593	Garnet Mine, Mineral Hill Mining District (Pony Mining District), Madison Co., Montana, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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