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Locality Name:
Gold Hill District, Ouray Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 65495
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-65495.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gold Hill District, Ouray Co., Colorado, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
American Nettie
Bachelor-Syracuse Mine
Bright Diamond Mine
Iron Clad Mine
Johnathan
Memphis
Pony Express Mine
Wanakah

Latitude: 38°2'47"N
Longitude: 107°40'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.046388888889,-107.67305555556

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	Amphibole	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copiapite
Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Garnet	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Melanterite
Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Sphalerite
Spinel	Stibnite	Stilpnomelane	Sulphur	Tetradymite	Tetrahedrite	Titanite

Acanthite ()*	Actinolite ()*	Anatase ()*	Andradite ()*	Anglesite ()*
Ankerite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chamosite ()*	Copiapite ()*	Copper ()*	Epidote ()*
Freibergite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*
Hessite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Melanterite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pearceite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stilpnomelane ()*	Sulphur ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*
Tetradymite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Titanite ()*	Uraninite ()*

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 Au Ba Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Sb Si Te Ti U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amphibole Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Copiapite
Copper Corundum Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Garnet Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite Melanterite
Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Sphalerite
Spinel Stibnite Stilpnomelane Sulphur Tetradymite Tetrahedrite Titanite

44 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	2	194117,194118	2793
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	3	194119,194120,194124	3419
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	194117	2162
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	194124	1534
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	194117	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	194117	3092
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	194117,194123	11547
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	194117	1935
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	194117,194118,194119,194120,194123	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	194117	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	5	194117,194118,194119,194120,194123	27198
Chamosite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Fe²⁺,Mg,Al,Fe³⁺)₆(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH,O)₈	1	194124	577
Copiapite ()*	Copiapite	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₄(SO₄)₆(OH)₂·20H₂O	1	194117	382
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	194117	3846
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3	194119,194120,194124	8173
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	1	194118	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	194117,194118,194123	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	194117	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	2	194117,194123	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	194123,194124	14640
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	1	194121	804
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	194117	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	3	194119,194120,194124	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	194123	12537
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	194117	915
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	194117	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	194117,194121	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	194117	2349
Pearceite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(As,Sb)₂S₇]	1	194118	249
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	2	194117,194118	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	194117,194119,194120,194121,194124	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6	194117,194118,194119,194120,194121,194123	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2	194117,194124	5614
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	194117	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2	194117,194118	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	194123	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	194117,194118,194123	21482
Stilpnomelane ()*	Stilpnomelane Clay	(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)₈(Si,Al)₁₂(O,OH)₃₆·nH₂O	1	194124	456
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	194117	2045
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	2	194117,194123	1803
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	1	194117	510
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	3	194117,194118,194123	5317
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	194124	4899
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	194117	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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