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Locality Name:
Horse Heaven District, Jefferson Co., Oregon, USA

mindat Locality ID: 52727
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-52727.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Horse Heaven District, Jefferson Co., Oregon, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Ashwood Prospect (Good Chance Prospect; Swanson)
Axe Handle Mine (Axhandle Butte Mine)
Big Muddy Cinnabar Occurrence (Crosby Mercury; Yates; Degner)
Cherry Creek Prospects (Stephenson)
Custer Young Occurrence (Butte And View Claims)
Good Earth Prospect
Horse Creek Prospects
Horse Heaven Mine
Mercury Prospect (MRDS - 10041070)
Oregon King Mine
Queen Of Oregon Occurrence
Red Jacket Occurrence
Redskin Occurrence
Roark And Lowry Occurrence (Lourey; Lowrey; Roark; Garnet No. 1)
Roark And Lowry Occurrence (Lourey; Roark; Garnet No. 1)
Roy Mining Property (Ruby Mine)
Unnamed Gold Prospect (MRDS - 10225935)

Latitude: 44°44'36"N
Longitude: 120°39'2"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.743333333333,-120.65055555556

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.

Alunite	Arsenic	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Epsomite	Gypsum	Marcasite	Melanterite
None	Orpiment	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Sulphur
Tetrahedrite

Antimony ()*	Calcite ()*	Calomel ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Epsomite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*
Jarosite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Mercury ()*	Metacinnabar ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Orpiment ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Realgar ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibiconite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Sulphur ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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: Ag Al As Au C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Hg K Mg Na O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: H O Sb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Arsenic Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Epsomite Gypsum Marcasite Melanterite
None Orpiment Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Stibnite Sulphur
Tetrahedrite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	1	259358	363
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	4	259357,259361,259370,259371	27770
Calomel ()*	None	HgCl	1	259358	91
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	259366	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	259366	1382
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	12	259357,259358,259359,259360,259361,259362,259363,259364,259368,259369,259370,259371	2600
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	259363	484
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	259366	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	259366	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	5	259357,259358,259361,259363,259364	6890
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	2	259358,259364	2228
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	6	259357,259358,259361,259363,259364,259368	5674
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	259358	915
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	1	259364	397
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	1	259364	255
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	259364	1508
Orpiment ()*	Orpiment	As₂S₃	1	259358	511
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	259358,259366,259368,259372	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	259357,259361,259366,259372	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	1	259358	712
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	259366	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	259366	21482
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	0		446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	4	259358,259364,259367,259368	3418
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	259358	2045
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	259366	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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