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Locality Name:
Red Bird Mine, Antelope Springs District, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 6.4
Youngest recorded age at locality: 5.8

mindat Locality ID: 19480
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19480.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Red Bird Mine, Antelope Springs District, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 40°10'9"N
Longitude: 118°10'19"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.169166666667,-118.17194444444

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.

Adelite	Amorphous	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Dadsonite	Diaspore	Malachite	Meneghinite
Minium	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Sphalerite	Stibnite

Aragonite ()*	Arsendescloizite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bindheimite ()*
Boulangerite ()*	Calcite ()*	Calomel ()*	Cerussite ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Dadsonite ()*	Edgarbaileyite ()*	Goethite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Jamesonite ()*
Kermesite ()*	Meneghinite ()*	Mercury ()*	Metacinnabar ()*	Minium ()*
Opal ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Robinsonite ()*	Rosasite ()*
Schuetteite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Vanadinite ()*

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: As Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Hg O Pb S Sb Si V Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Ba C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Hg O Pb S Sb Si V Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Adelite Amorphous Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Dadsonite Diaspore Malachite Meneghinite
Minium None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Sphalerite Stibnite

30 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	6.4	5.8	3250
Arsendescloizite ()*	Adelite	PbZn(AsO₄)(OH)	6.4	5.8	20
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	6.4	5.8	919
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	6.4	5.8	11547
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	6.4	5.8	450
Boulangerite ()*	None	Pb₅Sb₄S₁₁	6.4	5.8	843
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	6.4	5.8	27770
Calomel ()*	None	HgCl	6.4	5.8	91
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	6.4	5.8	4979
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	6.4	5.8	2600
Dadsonite ()*	Dadsonite	Pb₂₃Sb₂₅S₆₀Cl	6.4	5.8	15
Edgarbaileyite ()*	None	Hg¹⁺₆Si₂O₇	6.4	5.8	6
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	6.4	5.8	7437
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	6.4	5.8	1689
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	6.4	5.8	784
Kermesite ()*	None	Sb₂OS₂	6.4	5.8	230
Meneghinite ()*	Meneghinite	Pb₁₃CuSb₇S₂₄	6.4	5.8	158
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	6.4	5.8	397
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	6.4	5.8	255
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄	6.4	5.8	247
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	6.4	5.8	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6.4	5.8	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	6.4	5.8	61156
Robinsonite ()*	None	Pb₄Sb₆S₁₃	6.4	5.8	39
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂	6.4	5.8	454
Schuetteite ()*	None	Hg₃O₂(SO₄)	0	0	21
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	6.4	5.8	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	6.4	5.8	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	6.4	5.8	3418
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	6.4	5.8	605

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Hg-00091	6.4	5.8		K-Ar						Yes		Calomel, Cinnabar, Edgarbaileyite, Livingstonite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Schuetteite	Hg	36727	Antelope Springs District, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA		Noble et al. (1988); Coolbaugh et al. (2005)

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