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Locality Name:
Monte Cristo District, Snohomish Co., Washington, USA

mindat Locality ID: 29231
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-29231.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Monte Cristo District, Snohomish Co., Washington, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Goat Lake
Last Hope Mine
Monte Cristo
Red Gulch

Latitude: 47°56'42"N
Longitude: 121°24'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 47.945,-121.41527777778

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	Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum
Cubanite	Epidote	Malachite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pentlandite	Perovskite	Pyrite	Quartz
Rocksalt	Skutterudite	Sphalerite	Staurolite	Stibnite	Valleriite	Vivianite	Wurtzite

Annabergite ()*	Arsenic ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cubanite ()*	Epidote ()*
Erythrite ()*	Euchroite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Langite ()*	Mackinawite ()*	Malachite ()*
Maucherite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Nickeline ()*	Nickelskutterudite ()*	Parnauite ()*
Pennantite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Realgar ()*	Scorodite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Staurolite ()*	Stibnite ()*
Tenorite ()*	Valleriite ()*

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 As Au C Ca Co Cu Fe H Mg Mn Mo Ni O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Cu Fe H O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Arsenic Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum
Cubanite Epidote Malachite Molybdenite Nickeline None Pentlandite Perovskite Pyrite Quartz
Rocksalt Skutterudite Sphalerite Staurolite Stibnite Valleriite Vivianite Wurtzite

37 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Annabergite ()*	Vivianite	Ni₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	285744	445
Arsenic ()*	Arsenic	As	1	285732	379
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	9	285733,285736,285737,285739,285743,285744,285747,285748,285749	9052
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	285734	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5	285736,285737,285744,285747,285748	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	0		5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	10	285733,285734,285735,285736,285737,285739,285744,285747,285748,285751	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	285744	3531
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃	1	285744	802
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	285747	8173
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	2	285744,285747	814
Euchroite ()*	None	Cu₂(AsO₄)(OH)·3H₂O	1	285747	24
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	4	285736,285739,285747,285748	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	285746	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	0		14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	285745	5433
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	1	285747	784
Langite ()*	None	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆·2H₂O	2	285744,285747	593
Mackinawite ()*	None	(Fe,Ni)_1+xS (x = 0-0.07)	1	285744	451
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	285744	12537
Maucherite ()*	None	Ni₁₁As₈	1	285744	161
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	285751	5800
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	1	285744	633
Nickelskutterudite ()*	Skutterudite Perovskite	(Ni,Co,Fe)As₃	1	285744	176
Parnauite ()*	None	Cu₉(AsO₄)₂(SO₄)(OH)₁₀·7H₂O	1	285744	105
Pennantite ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mn²⁺₅Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₈	1	285750	25
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	285744	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	11	285733,285734,285735,285736,285737,285739,285743,285744,285747,285748,285749	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	4	285737,285744,285746,285747	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	10	285736,285737,285739,285742,285743,285744,285747,285748,285750,285751	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	4	285736,285743,285747,285748	712
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	0		1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	285736,285737,285739,285747,285748	21482
Staurolite ()*	Staurolite	Fe²⁺₂Al₉Si₄O₂₃(OH)	1	285740	978
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	2	285736,285743	3418
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	0		1101
Valleriite ()*	Valleriite	2[(Fe,Cu)S]·1.53[(Mg,Al)(OH)₂]	1	285744	237

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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