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Locality Name:
Mount Benedict, Nogales District (Gold Hill District), Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 61101
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-61101.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mount Benedict, Nogales District (Gold Hill District), Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Columbia Mine Group
Dura Mine (Dura Mine Group; International Mine; Old Contest Mine)
East Slope
Gold Hill Mine (MacGregor Mine; Coughanour Mine; Clay Mine)
Lion Mine
Two Brothers Mine (Dos Hermanos Mine)
Uncle Sam Mine (Hardscrabble Mine; Old Dominion Mine)

Latitude: 31°23'47"N
Longitude: 110°55'10"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 31.396388888889,-110.91944444444
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: Au C Cu Fe H Mo O Pb S Sb 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteBaryteChalcopyriteCopperMalachiteNoneNot in a structural groupPyriteRocksaltScheelite
Stibnite

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Anglesite  (*)Azurite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)
Gold  (*)Malachite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Stibnite  (*)Wulfenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite  (*)BarytePb(SO4)11464752734
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)22146478,1464835509
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)11464794979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS27146475,146476,146477,146478,146479,146482,14648527198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS8146475,146476,146477,146478,146479,146482,146483,14648524243
Gold  (*)CopperAu114648130554
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)23146476,146479,14648312537
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS25146475,146476,146477,146478,14647939462
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S311464793418
Wulfenite  (*)ScheelitePbMoO411464791655


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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