Mineral Evolution Database

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Mineral Hill Consolidated Mining Co. Mines, Mineral Hill District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 60654
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-60654.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mineral Hill Consolidated Mining Co. Mines, Mineral Hill District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Austin Stope
Giant Stope
Live Yankee Stope
Star Chamber Stope

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.

Acanthite	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Malachite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bromargyrite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	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 Ba Br C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mo O P Pb S Sb Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Ba Br C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mo O P Pb S Sb Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Malachite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	0		2793
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	0		5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	0		227
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0		27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	0		4979
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	0		1382
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	237178	24243
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	0		12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	0		5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	0		1725
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	237178	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	0		586
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	0		5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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