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:
New Diggings Area Mines, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, USA

mindat Locality ID: 51789
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-51789.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "New Diggings Area Mines, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, USA": 32
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 32

Number of Child Localities: 32
Child Localities:
American Zinc Thompson Mine
Annie Walton Mine
B.A.T. Mine
Booty Mine
C.A.T. Mine
Champion And Eureka Mine
Crawhall Mine (Crowhill; Crowhall; Crawhill)
Curwen Mine (Longhenry And Curwen)
Empress Mine
Fields Upper Run Mine (Upper Run Mine)
Hoskins-Fields Mine (Hoskins; Fields; North Hoskins; East Hoskins)
Indian Mound Mine (Murphy Mine)
Jack Of Diamonds Mine
L. V. And M. Mines
Lafayette Mine (Lafayette Lake Superior Mine)
Little Minnie Mine
Lucky Twelve Mine
Meloy Mine (Meloy And Robson Mines)
Monroe Mine (Longhorn Mine; Little Joe Mine)
New Cottingham Mine (Cottingham No. 2 Mine)
New Hoskins Mine
New Longhorn Mine (Ed Longhorn Mine)
Nightingale Mine
Old Cottingham Mine (Cottingham No. 1)
Old Windkell Mine (Winskell No. 1 Mine)
Penna Benton Mine (Penna-Benton And Expansion Mines)
Sally Waters Mine (Monarch Mine)
The Hoskins-Field Mine
Thompson Mine (Fields-Thompson Mine)
Vinegar Hill Blackstone Mine (Blackstone Mine)
Winrock Mine (Winskell No. 2; Rock)
Wipet Mine (New Winskell; Winskell-Peterson; Winskell No. 3)

Latitude: 42°32'37"N
Longitude: 90°19'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.543611111111,-90.316666666667

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	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Cobaltite	Diaspore	Feldspar	Marcasite	Millerite	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cobaltite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Millerite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sanidine ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Wurtzite ()*

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 As Ba C Ca Co Cu Fe H K Mg Ni O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As C Co Fe H O Pb S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Cobaltite Diaspore Feldspar Marcasite Millerite None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Wurtzite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	288372,288376	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	31	288370,288371,288372,288373,288374,288375,288376,288377,288378,288379,288380,288381,288382,288384,288385,288386,288387,288388,288389,288390,288391,288392,288393,288394,288395,288396,288397,288398,288399,288400,288401	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	0		4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	288389,288390	27198
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	0		966
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	31	288370,288371,288372,288373,288374,288375,288376,288377,288378,288379,288380,288381,288382,288384,288385,288386,288387,288388,288389,288390,288391,288392,288393,288394,288395,288396,288397,288398,288399,288400,288401	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	16	288370,288371,288375,288377,288378,288379,288380,288381,288382,288385,288387,288388,288389,288390,288395,288396	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	0		7437
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	16	288371,288375,288376,288377,288378,288379,288380,288381,288382,288385,288387,288388,288389,288390,288395,288396	5674
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	1	288389	1066
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	30	288371,288372,288373,288374,288375,288376,288377,288378,288379,288380,288381,288382,288384,288385,288386,288387,288388,288389,288390,288391,288392,288393,288394,288395,288396,288397,288398,288399,288400,288401	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	28	288372,288373,288374,288375,288376,288377,288378,288379,288381,288382,288384,288385,288386,288387,288388,288389,288390,288391,288392,288393,288394,288395,288396,288397,288398,288399,288400,288401	61156
Sanidine ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	288398	598
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	5	288378,288382,288387,288395,288396	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	31	288370,288371,288372,288373,288374,288375,288376,288377,288378,288379,288380,288381,288382,288384,288385,288386,288387,288388,288389,288390,288391,288392,288393,288394,288395,288396,288397,288398,288399,288400,288401	21482
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	0		372

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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