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Locality Name:
Josephine Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 167
Youngest recorded age at locality: 145

mindat Locality ID: 66186
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-66186.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Josephine Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Alta Mine (Oro Fino)
Bowden Prospect (Bouden Prospect)
Canyon Creek Consolidated Gold Mines Property
Chatty Mine (Ramp No. 328; Twelve O' Clock Mine; Kerby No. 79; Pocket Knoll)
Independence Placer (Goshen Placer; Foster Placer)
Josephine Creek Placers
Mendenhall Creek
Mood Prospect (Moody Occurrence)
Neil Mine (Segno Tomek; Billy Neil)
Norton Placer
Old Ray Mine
Roseburg And Fidelity Group (Free & Easy)
Silver Nugget Placer Mine
Winters And McPherson Prospects
Woodcock Garnierite Claims

Latitude: 42°12'57"N
Longitude: 123°42'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.215833333333,-123.71361111111

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.

Auricupride	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Diamond	Garnet	Iron	Malachite
Matlockite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Perovskite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile
Spinel

Andradite ()*	Awaruite ()*	Bornite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*
Clinochlore ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Daubréeite ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Iridium ()*	Kassite ()*	Maghemite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Orcelite ()*	Oregonite ()*	Osmium ()*
Pentlandite ()*	Platinum ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rutile ()*	Silicon ()*	Silver ()*	Tetrataenite ()*	Trevorite ()*
Wairauite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Co Cr Cu Fe H Ir Mg Mo Ni O Os Pt S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Auricupride Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Copper Corundum Diamond Garnet Iron Malachite
Matlockite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Perovskite Pyrite Quartz Rutile
Spinel

31 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
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	167	145	1	259920	1534
Awaruite ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Ni₃Fe	167	145	2	259920,259923	166
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	167	145	1	259920	5516
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	167	145	3	259915,259916,259920	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	157	150	3	259919,259920,259921	3902
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	167	145	1	259920	1756
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	167	145	1	259920	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	167	145	1	259920	2970
Daubréeite ()*	Matlockite	BiO(OH)	167	145	1	259920	13
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	157	150	9	259915,259918,259919,259920,259921,259926,259927,259928,259929	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	157	150	2	259919,259921	14640
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir	157	150	3	259919,259920,259921	162
Kassite ()*	None	CaTi₂O₄(OH)₂	167	145	1	259920	10
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄	167	145	1	259920	229
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	157	150	3	259919,259920,259921	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	167	145	1	259920	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	167	145	1	259920	5800
Orcelite ()*	None	Ni_5-xAs₂ (x = 0.25)	167	145	1	259920	36
Oregonite ()*	None	FeNi₂As₂	167	145	1	259920	5
Osmium ()*	None	Os	167	145	1	259920	169
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	167	145	1	259920	1512
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	157	150	2	259919,259921	485
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			7	259915,259916,259917,259918,259924,259928,259930	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			1	259915	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			5	259915,259916,259918,259928,259931	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	167	145	1	259920	5614
Silicon ()*	Diamond	Si	167	145	1	259920	21
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	167	145	1	259920	5186
Tetrataenite ()*	None	FeNi	167	145	1	259920	116
Trevorite ()*	Spinel	NiFe³⁺₂O₄	167	145	1	259920	17
Wairauite ()*	Iron	CoFe	167	145	1	259920	16

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Kristen002448	Nevadan Orogeny includes the Kalamath Mountains

4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Age from other Locality	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
DeepDive-Co-0058	155	150	155-150	K-Ar	age of diorite dikes			4064	Josephine Creek Placers, Josephine Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA	Josephine Peridotite	Dick (1974)	10.1016/0012-821X(74)90107-1	EPSL24_291	age of diorite dikes
Kristen002448	167	145	Middle to Early Jurassic					4064	Josephine Creek Placers, Josephine Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA	Nevadan Orogeny, Josephine Creek placers	Lanphere et al. (1968)	10.1130/0016-7606(1968)79[1027:IAOTNO]2.0.CO;2	GSAB79_1027
Kristen002449	157	157				Yes	Zn, Cu, Ag, Au, S	66391	Turner-Albright Mine (Mammoth Mine; Turner Mine; Turner And Albright Mine; Granore), Takilma District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA	Turner Albright Massive Sulfide Deposit	Kuhns and Baitis (1987)	10.2113/gsecongeo.82.5.1362	EG82_1362
vms-01072	157	157	Jurassic			Yes	S	66391	Turner-Albright Mine (Mammoth Mine; Turner Mine; Turner And Albright Mine; Granore), Takilma District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA	Turner-Albright	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1034

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