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Locality Name:
Silver Creek, Rico District (Pioneer District), Dolores Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 69299
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-69299.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Silver Creek, Rico District (Pioneer District), Dolores Co., Colorado, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Fortuna And Duncan Prospect
Little Maggie Mine
Rico Argentine Mine
Silver Creek Molybdenum Deposit
Uncle Ned Mine

Latitude: 37°41'26"N
Longitude: 108°1'11"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.690555555556,-108.01972222222

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	Calcite	Cancrinite-sodalite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Copper	Epidote
Feldspar	Fluorite	Kaolinite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Rutile	Sodalite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Topaz

Acanthite ()*	Alabandite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Baryte ()*
Bismuthinite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Clinozoisite ()*
Cosalite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Helvine ()*
Hübnerite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rhodochrosite ()*	Sellaite ()*	Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Topaz ()*

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 Ba Be Bi C Ca Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Baryte Calcite Cancrinite-sodalite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Copper Epidote
Feldspar Fluorite Kaolinite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Rutile Sodalite Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Tetrahedrite Topaz

33 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	187650	2793
Alabandite ()*	Rocksalt	MnS	1	187650	312
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	187652	1588
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	187650	919
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	187650	11547
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	187650	1935
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	187650,187652	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	187650	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	187650,187651	27198
Clinozoisite ()*	Clinozoisite Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	187650	1025
Cosalite ()*	None	Pb₂Bi₂S₅	1	187650	344
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	3	187648,187650,187651	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	187650	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	187650	30554
Helvine ()*	Sodalite Cancrinite-sodalite	Be₃Mn²⁺₄(SiO₄)₃S	1	187650	237
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	1	187650	469
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	187650	1066
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	187650	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	187650	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	187652	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	187650,187651,187652	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	187652	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	187650,187653	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	1	187650	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	187650,187652	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	187650	1711
Sellaite ()*	Rutile	MgF₂	1	187651	46
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	187650	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	187650	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	187650	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	1	187650	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	187650	5317
Topaz ()*	Topaz	Al₂SiO₄F₂	1	187650	1476

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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