Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Highland Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Iowa Co., Wisconsin, USA

mindat Locality ID: 249998
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-249998.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Highland Area, Upper Mississippi Valley District, Iowa Co., Wisconsin, USA": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 19
Child Localities:
Centerville Mine (Montfort Mine; Jones & Snow Mine)
Clark Mine Group
Happy Home Mine
Highland Mine (Drybone Hollow; Franklin; Old Jack; North Lewis; Kennedy; Kennedy Drybone)
Hornswoggle Mine (Hornsnoggle)
Imhoff Mine
Imhoff-Egan Mine
Kroll Mine
Lewis Mine (Lewis And Lynch Mine)
Milwaukee-Highland Mine
Minter Mine
Ohlerking Mine
Old St. Anthony Mine
Otter Creek Copper Mine
Red Jacket Mine (Centerville Mine; Nundorf Diggings)
St. Anthony Mine
Steppler Farm (Steppler Mine)
Unnamed Cu Prospect [01]
Wallace Mine

Latitude: 43°1'53"N
Longitude: 90°22'50"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 43.031388888889,-90.380555555556

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.

Allophane	Apatite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Diaspore	Malachite	Marcasite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Cuprite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tenorite ()*

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: Al C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mg O P Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Apatite Calcite Chalcopyrite Diaspore Malachite Marcasite None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	3	287804,287809,287824	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	3	287804,287809,287824	5509
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	22	287803,287804,287805,287806,287807,287808,287809,287810,287811,287812,287813,287814,287815,287816,287817,287818,287819,287820,287822,287823,287824,287826	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	4	287804,287809,287821,287824	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	9	287804,287805,287806,287807,287808,287809,287821,287824,287826	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	287824	3531
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2	287804,287809	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	22	287803,287804,287805,287806,287807,287808,287809,287810,287811,287812,287813,287814,287815,287816,287817,287818,287819,287820,287822,287823,287824,287826	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	17	287804,287805,287806,287807,287808,287809,287810,287811,287812,287815,287816,287818,287819,287820,287822,287824,287826	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	3	287809,287819,287824	7437
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4	287804,287809,287821,287824	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	8	287804,287805,287807,287808,287809,287812,287819,287820	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	22	287803,287804,287805,287806,287807,287808,287809,287810,287811,287812,287813,287814,287815,287816,287817,287818,287819,287820,287822,287823,287824,287826	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	2	287804,287809	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	20	287803,287804,287805,287806,287807,287808,287809,287810,287811,287813,287814,287815,287816,287817,287818,287819,287822,287823,287824,287826	61156
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	17	287804,287805,287806,287807,287808,287809,287810,287811,287812,287813,287815,287816,287818,287820,287822,287824,287826	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21	287803,287804,287805,287806,287807,287808,287809,287810,287811,287812,287813,287814,287815,287816,287817,287818,287820,287822,287823,287824,287826	21482
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	2	287804,287809	1101

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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