Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Bear Creek Canyon, Ouray, Ouray District, San Juan Mts, Ouray Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 69291
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-69291.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bear Creek Canyon, Ouray, Ouray District, San Juan Mts, Ouray Co., Colorado, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Bear Creek Mine
Grizzly Bear Mine
Silver Queen Mine
Yellow Jacket Mine

Latitude: 37°59'30"N
Longitude: 107°38'33"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.991666666667,-107.6425

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	Baryte	Brookite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Copper	Corundum	Fluorite
Kaolinite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Polybasite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Anatase ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Brookite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Hübnerite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Polybasite ()*
Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Siderite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	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 Au Ba Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mn O Pb S Sb Si Ti U W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: O U

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Baryte Brookite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Copper Corundum Fluorite
Kaolinite Mica None Not in a structural group Polybasite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

24 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	1	194384	2793
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	194385	2162
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	194384,194386	11547
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	2	194384,194385	1935
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	194385	700
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	194384,194387	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	194384,194385	27198
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	2	194384,194385	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	194384,194385,194386	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	194384	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	194384	14640
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	2	194384,194385	469
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	194386	5591
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	194385	17380
Polybasite ()*	Polybasite	[Ag₉CuS₄][(Ag,Cu)₆(Sb,As)₂S₇]	1	194385	716
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	194384	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	194384,194385	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	194384,194385,194386	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	4	194383,194384,194385,194386	1711
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	1	194384	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	194385	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	194384,194385,194386,194387	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	194384,194386	5317
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	0		2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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