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Locality Name:
Adams Hill, Eureka District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 107
Youngest recorded age at locality: 107

mindat Locality ID: 60679
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-60679.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Adams Hill, Eureka District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Bullwacker Mine
Eureka Holly Mine
Helen Shaft
Holly Extension Mine
TL Shaft
Wales Shaft
Williamsburg Mine

Latitude: 39°31'19"N
Longitude: 116°5'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.521944444444,-116.09055555556

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	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Copper	Diaspore	Malachite	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Anglesite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Beudantite ()*	Bindheimite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Gold ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Malachite ()*	Mimetite ()*
Plumbojarosite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	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 Au C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Copper Diaspore Malachite None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	107	107	3	237019,237022,237024	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	107	107	2	237016,237021	9052
Beudantite ()*	Alunite	PbFe³⁺₃(AsO₄)(SO₄)(OH)₆	107	107	1	237016	413
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	107	107	1	237020	450
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	107	107	1	237020	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	107	107	1	237022	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	107	107	1	237016	5707
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	107	107	1	237020	1382
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	107	107	3	237016,237019,237021	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	107	107	1	237020	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	107	107	1	237020	30554
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	107	107	2	237016,237020	1689
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	107	107	1	237016	1066
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	107	107	1	237024	12537
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	107	107	1	237020	1107
Plumbojarosite ()*	Alunite	Pb_0.5Fe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	107	107	4	237016,237020,237022,237024	477
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	107	107	1	237021	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	107	107	1	237020	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	107	107	2	237020,237022	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	107	107	3	237016,237019,237021	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	107	107	1	237016	1803
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	107	107	1	237020	1655

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedznpb-00459	107	107	107							Yes				20084	Eureka District, Eureka Co., Nevada, USA	Eureka	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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