Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Whig Patch Diggings, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA

mindat Locality ID: 51753
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-51753.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Whig Patch Diggings, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Capitola Mine (Phillips And Rice)
Edgerton Mine
Graham And Stephens Mine
Platteville Quarry
Tippecanoe Mine
Western Star Mine
Whig Mine

Latitude: 42°44'11"N
Longitude: 90°32'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.736388888889,-90.537222222222

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	Marcasite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

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: C Ca Cu Fe Mg O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Fe O Pb S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Marcasite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*
Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6	287627,287628,287629,287631,287632,287633	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	0		4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	287629	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	6	287627,287628,287629,287631,287632,287633	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	0		24243
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	0		5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	287627,287629,287631,287632,287633	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	287627,287629,287631,287632,287633	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	6	287627,287628,287629,287631,287632,287633	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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