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

mindat Locality ID: 52326
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-52326.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Upper Mississippi Valley District, Grant Co., Wisconsin, USA": 133
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 120

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Arthur Area
Beetown Area
Blockhouse Range
Brush Ridge Diggings
Cuba City
Ellenboro Area
Fairplay Mine
Grab Diggings
Hazel Green Area
Hurricain Diggings
Montford Area
Platteville Area
Potosi Area
Smelser Township
Tennyson Area
Upper Mississippi Valley Prospect
Whig Patch Diggings
Whittaker Diggings

Latitude: 42°44'11"N
Longitude: 90°33'40"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.736388888889,-90.561111111111

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	Enargite	Malachite	Marcasite	Millerite
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Cobaltite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Enargite ()*	Galena ()*
Goethite ()*	Greenockite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Millerite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	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: As Ba C Ca Cd Co Cu Fe H Mg Ni O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Cobaltite Diaspore Enargite Malachite Marcasite Millerite
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Wurtzite

20 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	287511,287512	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	12	287503,287505,287508,287511,287536,287557,287558,287559,287560,287567,287568,287585	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	84	287503,287505,287508,287510,287511,287512,287513,287514,287516,287518,287519,287520,287521,287522,287523,287525,287526,287527,287528,287529,287530,287531,287532,287533,287534,287536,287537,287543,287544,287546,287547,287548,287549,287550,287551,287553,287554,287557,287558,287559,287560,287561,287562,287564,287567,287568,287571,287573,287575,287578,287582,287584,287585,287591,287592,287596,287599,287601,287602,287604,287605,287608,287609,287610,287611,287612,287613,287614,287616,287617,287618,287619,287620,287621,287622,287624,287626,287627,287628,287629,287631,287632,287633,287634	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	6	287514,287536,287537,287554,287626,287634	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	287511,287512	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	10	287508,287511,287512,287536,287567,287568,287585,287618,287626,287629	27198
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	1	287536	966
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	73	287503,287505,287508,287510,287512,287513,287516,287518,287519,287520,287521,287522,287523,287525,287526,287527,287528,287529,287530,287531,287532,287533,287534,287536,287537,287543,287546,287547,287548,287549,287550,287551,287553,287557,287558,287559,287560,287561,287562,287564,287567,287568,287571,287573,287575,287578,287582,287584,287585,287591,287592,287596,287602,287604,287605,287608,287609,287611,287614,287616,287617,287618,287619,287620,287621,287622,287624,287627,287628,287629,287631,287632,287633	9895
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	1	287618	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	46	287503,287505,287508,287510,287513,287514,287516,287521,287523,287526,287529,287531,287534,287536,287537,287543,287544,287546,287547,287548,287549,287550,287551,287552,287554,287561,287567,287568,287571,287578,287585,287593,287599,287601,287602,287604,287605,287614,287616,287617,287618,287619,287622,287624,287626,287634	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	3	287514,287536,287554	7437
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	1	287585	717
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	287508,287511,287512	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	28	287503,287505,287510,287511,287512,287514,287516,287526,287534,287536,287537,287544,287546,287554,287557,287558,287559,287560,287561,287585,287602,287604,287616,287618,287622,287624,287626,287634	5674
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	2	287536,287618	1066
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	78	287503,287505,287508,287510,287511,287512,287513,287514,287516,287518,287519,287520,287521,287522,287523,287525,287526,287527,287528,287529,287530,287531,287533,287534,287536,287537,287543,287544,287546,287547,287548,287549,287550,287551,287553,287554,287557,287558,287559,287560,287561,287562,287564,287567,287568,287571,287573,287575,287578,287582,287584,287585,287591,287592,287596,287599,287602,287604,287605,287608,287609,287611,287614,287616,287617,287618,287619,287620,287621,287622,287624,287626,287627,287629,287631,287632,287633,287634	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	67	287503,287505,287508,287510,287512,287513,287516,287518,287519,287520,287521,287522,287523,287525,287526,287527,287528,287529,287530,287531,287533,287536,287543,287546,287547,287548,287549,287550,287551,287553,287557,287560,287562,287564,287567,287568,287571,287573,287575,287578,287582,287584,287585,287591,287592,287596,287599,287602,287604,287605,287608,287609,287611,287614,287616,287617,287618,287619,287620,287621,287622,287624,287627,287629,287631,287632,287633	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	7	287512,287534,287536,287544,287550,287560,287561	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	78	287503,287505,287508,287511,287512,287513,287514,287516,287518,287519,287520,287521,287522,287523,287525,287526,287527,287528,287529,287530,287531,287532,287533,287534,287536,287537,287543,287546,287547,287548,287549,287550,287551,287553,287554,287557,287558,287559,287560,287561,287562,287564,287567,287568,287571,287573,287575,287578,287579,287582,287584,287585,287591,287592,287596,287602,287604,287605,287608,287609,287611,287614,287616,287617,287618,287619,287620,287621,287622,287624,287626,287627,287628,287629,287631,287632,287633,287634	21482
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS	2	287536,287618	372

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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