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Locality Name:
Squaw Gulch Area, Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 58927
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-58927.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Squaw Gulch Area, Tyndall District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Burro Mine
Ivanhoe Mine (Commercial Tunnel And Shaft; Ivanhoe 1-8 Claims; Commercial 1-6 Claims)
Viceroy Mine
Victor Mine (Bowling Green Patented Claim)

Latitude: 31°35'38"N
Longitude: 110°49'53"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.593888888889,-110.83138888889
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: Ag Al As C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Sb Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteAragoniteChalcopyriteClayClinozoisiteCopperEpidoteFeldsparKaoliniteMalachite
MicaNoneNot in a structural groupPolybasitePyriteRocksaltScheeliteSphaleriteTetrahedrite

22 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Alunite  (*)Azurite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcocite  (*)
Chalcopyrite  (*)Chlorargyrite  (*)Epidote  (*)Galena  (*)Kaolinite  (*)
Malachite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Orthoclase  (*)Polybasite  (*)Proustite  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Silver  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Stromeyerite  (*)Tenorite  (*)
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)Wulfenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S11471632793
Alunite  (*)NoneKAl3(SO4)2(OH)61147163966
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)211471635509
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)2147163,1471654979
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S3147162,147163,1471645707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS24147162,147163,147164,14716527198
Chlorargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgCl11471631382
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)11471638173
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS4147162,147163,147164,14716524243
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)411471635591
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2114716412537
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2114716317380
Orthoclase  (*)FeldsparK(AlSi3O8)11471632349
Polybasite  (*)Polybasite[Ag9CuS4][(Ag,Cu)6(Sb,As)2S7]1147163716
Proustite  (*)NoneAg3AsS31147163733
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23147162,147163,14716539462
Silver  (*)CopperAg11471635186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS114716521482
Stromeyerite  (*)NoneCuAgS1147163332
Tenorite  (*)NoneCuO11471631101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1311471635317
Wulfenite  (*)ScheelitePbMoO411471631655


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