Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Unnamed Drill Core, Buckeye Gulch, Alicante, Lake Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 19773
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19773.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Unnamed Drill Core, Buckeye Gulch, Alicante, Lake Co., Colorado, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Melonite	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

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 Au Cu Fe Hg Pb S Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Au Cu Fe Hg Pb S Te

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Melonite None Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Altaite ()*	Coloradoite ()*	Hessite ()*	Kostovite ()*	Petzite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Rickardite ()*	Stützite ()*	Sylvanite ()*	Tellurium ()*
Weissite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Altaite ()*	Rocksalt	PbTe	489
Coloradoite ()*	Sphalerite	HgTe	169
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	804
Kostovite ()*	None	AuCuTe₄	21
Petzite ()*	None	Ag₃AuTe₂	409
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Rickardite ()*	None	Cu_3-xTe₂	52
Stützite ()*	None	Ag_5-xTe₃ (x = 0.24-0.36)	92
Sylvanite ()*	Melonite	AgAuTe₄	337
Tellurium ()*	None	Te	190
Weissite ()*	None	Cu_2-xTe	31

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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