Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Summit Mine (Old Summit; Montana Silver Star), Radersburg Mining District (Cedar Plains Mining District; Lone Mountain Mining District), Broadwater Co., Montana, USA

mindat Locality ID: 5956
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-5956.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Summit Mine (Old Summit; Montana Silver Star), Radersburg Mining District (Cedar Plains Mining District; Lone Mountain Mining District), Broadwater Co., Montana, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Descloizite	Fluorite	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite	Sphalerite

Aragonite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Descloizite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*
Hemimorphite ()*	Mimetite ()*	Mottramite ()*	Plattnerite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Rosasite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Vanadinite ()*
Wulfenite ()*

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 As Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Mo O Pb S Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag As Ba C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Mo O Pb S Si V Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Descloizite Fluorite Malachite None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite Sphalerite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	919
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1382
Descloizite ()*	Descloizite	PbZn(VO₄)(OH)	378
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	24243
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1689
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	1107
Mottramite ()*	Descloizite	PbCu(VO₄)(OH)	362
Plattnerite ()*	Rutile	PbO₂	158
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	454
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	605
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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