Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Lincoln Mining District, Lewis And Clark Co., Montana, USA

mindat Locality ID: 68355
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-68355.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lincoln Mining District, Lewis And Clark Co., Montana, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Big Blackfoot (Blackfoot Underground)
Blackfoot Mine (Big Blackfoot Surface Mine)
Cotter Mine
Discovery And Margurete Mine
Lady Luck Placer
Lincoln
Lincoln Gulch Placer Mine (Maggie Lick Broke Her Pick)
Lincoln Gulch Placers
Liverpool Creek Occurrence
Margarette Occurrence
Osgood Placer Group
Robinson And Flesher Mine
Sauerkraut Gulch Placer (Robinson And Flesher Mine)
Stonewall Creek
Willow Creek Prospect

Latitude: 46°56'50"N
Longitude: 112°43'25"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.947222222222,-112.72361111111

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.

Calcite	Copper	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Scheelite	Spinel

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 Ca Fe O S Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Fe O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Copper None Pyrite Quartz Scheelite Spinel

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Magnetite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Siderite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	230121,230124,230129,230134	30554
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	230121	14899
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	230121	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	230129	4894
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	0		6417

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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