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Locality Name:
Picketpost Mountain Area, Superior, Superior District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 52660
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-52660.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Picketpost Mountain Area, Superior, Superior District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Adams Mine (Iberri Mine)
Antone Claims
Apache Tears Locality
Arnett And Telegraph Canyons
Arnett Creek
Black Prince Mine (Olsen Mine; Oleson Mine)
Chicago Pit (Great Lakes Carbon Co. Mine; Filter International Chicago Pit; Nord Sil-Flo Pit; Old Ciff Pit)
Perlite Pits
Smock Claims
Talley-Barnett Claims

Latitude: 33°15'39"N
Longitude: 111°8'34"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.260833333333,-111.14277777778

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: Al C Ca Cl Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb Si V 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca H Mg O Si 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AmphiboleApatiteCalciteMordeniteNonePyroxeneScheelite

8 IMA Minerals at location:
Augite  (*)Calcite  (*)Cowlesite  (*)Magnesio-hornblende  (*)Mordenite  (*)
Shannonite  (*)Vanadinite  (*)Wulfenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Augite  (*)Pyroxene(Ca,Mg,Fe)2Si2O611461682060
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)114616927770
Cowlesite  (*)NoneCa(Al2Si3)O10·5-6H2O114616884
Magnesio-hornblende  (*)Amphibole   Ca2(Mg4Al)(Si7Al)O22(OH)20238
Mordenite  (*)Mordenite(Na2,Ca,K2)4(Al8Si40)O96·28H2O1146168405
Shannonite  (*)NonePb2O(CO3)11461698
Vanadinite  (*)ApatitePb5(VO4)3Cl1146169605
Wulfenite  (*)ScheelitePbMoO411461691655



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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