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Locality Name:
Platteville Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA


mindat Locality ID: 51749
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-51749.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Platteville Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA": 32
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 32

Number of Child Localities: 32
Child Localities:
Acme Mine
Calvert Mine
Columbia Mine
Durley Lead Pits
Eclipse Mine
Empire Mine
Enterprise Mine
Evans Mine
Fortney Quarry
Grant County Mine (Lucky Four)
Green And Gibson Mine
Hibernia Mine
Highland Park Mine
Hodge Mine
Hodgson Quarry
Holman Mine
Homestead Mine
M And H
Mann Brothers Mine
McGovern Mine
Mitchell Hollow Mine
Rosemeyer Quarry (George Wendtlalandt; Inc.)
Royal Mine
Trego Mine (Great Northern)
Unnamed Pb Mine [01]
Unnamed Pb Pits [02]
Unnamed Pb Pits [03]
W. Vinyard Mine
Waters Mine
West Empire Mine
West Hill Mine
Winskell Mine

Latitude: 42°44'43"N
Longitude: 90°27'56"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.745277777778,-90.465555555556
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: Ba C Ca Cd Cu Fe Mg O Pb S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C O Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
BaryteCalciteChalcopyriteMarcasiteNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltSphaleriteWurtzite

11 IMA Minerals at location:
Baryte  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Dolomite  (*)Galena  (*)
Greenockite  (*)Marcasite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Smithsonite  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)3287567,287568,28758511547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)13287562,287564,287567,287568,287571,287573,287575,287578,287582,287584,287585,287591,28759227770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS23287567,287568,28758527198
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)213287562,287564,287567,287568,287571,287573,287575,287578,287582,287584,287585,287591,2875929895
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS6287567,287568,287571,287578,287585,28759324243
Greenockite  (*)WurtziteCdS1287585717
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS212875855674
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS213287562,287564,287567,287568,287571,287573,287575,287578,287582,287584,287585,287591,28759239462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO213287562,287564,287567,287568,287571,287573,287575,287578,287582,287584,287585,287591,28759261156
Smithsonite  (*)CalciteZn(CO3)02473
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS14287562,287564,287567,287568,287571,287573,287575,287578,287579,287582,287584,287585,287591,28759221482


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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