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Locality Name:
Rogue River District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA


mindat Locality ID: 66189
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-66189.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Rogue River District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Britton Manganese Property
Buckeye Mine
Empire Mine
Flanagan Mine (Bybee Mine; Flanagan And Emerson Mine; Emerson Mine)
George McAllister-Wax Campbell Manganese Mine (Kerby No. 8)
Havens Claims
Queen Mine
Ramsey Mine

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0
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: Al Au C Cu Fe H Hg Mn O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllophaneChalcopyriteCopperMalachiteNickelineNonePyriteQuartzRhodonite

10 IMA Minerals at location:
Bornite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chrysocolla  (*)Cinnabar  (*)Gold  (*)
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  (*)NoneCu5FeS412600775516
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2126007727198
Chrysocolla  (*)Allophane(Cu2-xAlx)H2-xSi2O5(OH)4·nH2O12600773531
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS12600782600
Gold  (*)CopperAu4260079,260080,260081,26008330554
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2126007712537
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22260077,26008239462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S812600779056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22260076,26008361156
Rhodonite  (*)RhodoniteCaMn3Mn(Si5O15)2260076,260080969


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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