Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Eagle Creek District, Baker Co., Oregon, USA

mindat Locality ID: 293194
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-293194.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Eagle Creek District, Baker Co., Oregon, USA": 44
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 44

Number of Child Localities: 44
Child Localities:
Amalgamated (Flying Dutchman)
Basin Mine
Bradley Creek Mine
Buffalo Mine
Burkemont Occurrence (North American Copper Company; Copper Union)
Clover Creek Copper Mine
Copper Butte Group (Gilkeson; Copper Queen)
Copper Occurrence (MRDS - 10032692)
Cornucopia Mine
Daddy Lode (Blue Bell)
Dolly Varden
Dolly Varden Nos. 1 And 2 Prospect (Bendigo Group)
Drum Lummon; Glacier Park Occurrence
Eagle Creek Placers
East Eagle (Woodard Group; McGee; Oliver Property)
East Eagle Mining & Milling Company (Golden King; Miller & Lane Group)
Forster And Thomas Copper Claim (Sovereign)
Goose Creek Placers (Hog'Em)
Higgins And Eveland Claims (Higgins And Exeland Claims)
Hillsboro Gold Mining Company Occurrence (Eagle Creek Junction Placer Mine)
Hilltop Keating Claim
Lily White Mine
Lost Horse Group (Red Warrior Mining Company)
McIntyre Group (Old Man)
Mix Brothers And Becker
Mother Lode Mine (Goose Creek; Poorman Group; Oregon Copper; Balm Creek Mines)
North America Copper Company Prospect
O'Brien Lode
Old Crow
Paddy Creek Occurrence
Pathfinder Group (Moorehead Group)
Poor Man (Gilkeson; Balm Creek Gold Mining Company; Mother Lode; Eagle Cap Wilderness; Poorman)
Red Knob Claims
Richfield
Richland Deposit
Roy And Sturgill (Macintyre Group)
Sanger Mine
Sheep Rock Mine (McGee; Summit Dunham Miles; Bradley Creek)
Simmons Mine (Simmons Creek Prospect; Simmons Prospect)
Snowstorm Prospect (Copper Spread)
Tucker
United Consolidated Group
White Claim
Yellow Nugget (Yellow Nugget No. 2)

Latitude: 44°58'25"N
Longitude: 117°23'27"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.973611111111,-117.39083333333

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	Alunite	Amphibole	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote
Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel

Actinolite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Jarosite ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	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 Al Au Ba C Ca Cr Cu Fe H Hg K Mg Mo O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Alunite Amphibole Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Epidote
Malachite Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel

23 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	255246	3419
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	2	255245,255265	3092
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	3	255245,255249,255263	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	2	255244,255246	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	255246,255265,255276	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	3	255246,255263,255272	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	10	255241,255245,255249,255254,255256,255263,255265,255270,255276,255277	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	255242	3902
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	5	255244,255246,255247,255260,255265	3531
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	255269	2600
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	4	255244,255246,255263,255272	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2	255246,255272	2970
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	255244,255246	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	255256,255276	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	255253,255265,255269,255276	30554
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	255245	2228
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	8	255244,255245,255246,255247,255260,255265,255270,255272	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	255252	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	255240	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	8	255241,255245,255254,255263,255265,255270,255276,255277	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	12	255240,255241,255245,255246,255254,255256,255263,255265,255269,255270,255276,255277	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	255244	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	255241,255276	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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