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

Oldest recorded age at locality: 203
Youngest recorded age at locality: 203

mindat Locality ID: 66188
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-66188.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pickett Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Big Four Placer (Bartlett)
Contact Group
Coons Copper-Gold Ledge Occurrence
Flanagan Mine
Gold Prospect (Kerby No. 7)
Hibbard Prospect
Lindh And Webb Placer (Lindh & Webber Placer)
Max Campbell Occurrence (Campbell-McAllister)
Onion Falls Copper (Coons Copper-Gold Ledge; Hamlin Prospect)
Onion Mountain Nickel Occurrence (Pack Trail; Cobalt Blue)
Pickett Creek (Duval And Powell; Carnegie)
Red Ledge Occurrence (Mercury; King; Red Devil)
Salt Rock Occurrence

Latitude: 42°28'9"N
Longitude: 123°33'57"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.469166666667,-123.56583333333
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 Cr Cu Fe H Hg Mn O Ru S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ChalcopyriteCopperMalachiteNickelineNonePyriteQuartzRhodoniteSpinel

13 IMA Minerals at location:
Bornite  (*)Chalcocite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chromite  (*)Cinnabar  (*)
Gold  (*)Laurite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Malachite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Pyrrhotite  (*)Quartz  (*)Rhodonite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS412600585516
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S12600585707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2126005827198
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O420320312600623902
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS2260060,2600612600
Gold  (*)CopperAu4260050,260054,260055,26005630554
Laurite  (*)PyriteRuS22032031260062226
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4126005914899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2126005912537
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23260055,260058,26006139462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S812600599056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2126005861156
Rhodonite  (*)RhodoniteCaMn3Mn(Si5O15)1260057969


1 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
podchrome-00426203203Late Triassic-Early Jurassic (>173 and >175 Ma U-Pb zircon in plagiogranite)       Cr151419Salt Rock Occurrence, Pickett Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USASalt RockMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 

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