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Locality Name:
Sunflower District (Mazatzal Mountains District; Quicksilver District), Mazatzal Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 56999
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-56999.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sunflower District (Mazatzal Mountains District; Quicksilver District), Mazatzal Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Bowman Group (Bowman Property; L&N Group; Cornucopia Mine; Cornicopia Claim; Robbins Mine; Tatum Group; IRL Group)
Gila County Belt
Maricopa Co. Belt
Maricopa County Belt
Maricopa Mine
McFarlane Gulch
Pine Mountain
Southwest Minerals Group

Latitude: 33°55'53"N
Longitude: 111°27'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.931388888889,-111.46527777778
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 As Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Hg Mg O Pb S Sb Si V 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba Cu Fe O S 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AmphiboleApatiteArsenopyriteBaryteBournoniteCalciteChalcopyriteClinozoisiteCorundumEpidote
MalachiteNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltSphaleriteTetrahedrite

19 IMA Minerals at location:
Actinolite  (*)Ankerite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Baryte  (*)Bournonite  (*)
Calcite  (*)Calomel  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Cinnabar  (*)Epidote  (*)
Galena  (*)Hematite  (*)Malachite  (*)Mercury  (*)Metacinnabar  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)Vanadinite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite  (*)Amphibole   Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe2+0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)211411373419
Ankerite  (*)NoneCa(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)211411373092
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS11411269052
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)011547
Bournonite  (*)BournoniteCuPbSbS311411471089
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)2141137,14114227770
Calomel  (*)NoneHgCl2141128,14113791
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2027198
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS14141126,141128,141130,141132,141134,141137,141139,141140,141141,141142,141143,141144,141145,1411492600
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)11411378173
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS114114724243
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3114114214640
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2114114112537
Mercury  (*)NoneHg3141128,141137,141149397
Metacinnabar  (*)SphaleriteHgS2141128,141137255
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23141137,141139,14114739462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO23141137,141139,14114561156
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S1311411371803
Vanadinite  (*)ApatitePb5(VO4)3Cl1141126605


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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