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Locality Name:
Silver Star District, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA

mindat Locality ID: 36722
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-36722.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Silver Star District, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA": 33
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 32

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Badger Mine
Bernie Mine
Bernie No. 2 Mine
Bernie No. 3 Mine
Big Dyke Claim
Dispozitch Mine (Disposish Mine)
Douglas Camp
Dunlap Mine
Dunwoody-Pritchard Group
Endowment Mine
Garfield Lease
Gold Range
Halley's Comet Mine (Clara Mine)
High Ore Group
Lowman Mine
Moho Mine
Pine Crow Prospect
Silver Dyke Mine
Silver Star Mine
Spence Mine

Latitude: 38°17'48"N
Longitude: 118°16'34"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.296666666667,-118.27611111111

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.

Acanthite	Allophane	Alunite	Andalusite	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenic	Baryte	Bismutite	Brochantite
Calcite	Caledonite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Columbite	Copper	Feldspar	Linarite	Malachite	Minium
Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Palygorskite	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite
Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Turquoise	Vesuvianite

Acanthite ()*	Adamite ()*	Albite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Baryte ()*
Beaverite-(Cu) ()*	Bindheimite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bismutite ()*
Bornite ()*	Brochantite ()*	Calcite ()*	Caledonite ()*	Cassiterite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Cervantite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hessite ()*
Hübnerite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Kyanite ()*	Linarite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Minium ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Palygorskite ()*	Petzite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Turquoise ()*	Variscite ()*
Vesuvianite ()*

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 As Au Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Hg Mg Mn Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si Sn Te W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ag Al As Ba C Ca Cu F Fe H Hg Mg Mn Na O Pb S Sb Si Sn W Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Allophane Alunite Andalusite Apatite Aragonite Arsenic Baryte Bismutite Brochantite
Calcite Caledonite Chalcopyrite Clay Columbite Copper Feldspar Linarite Malachite Minium
Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Palygorskite Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite
Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Tetrahedrite Turquoise Vesuvianite

46 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	0		2793
Adamite ()*	Andalusite	Zn₂(AsO₄)(OH)	0		254
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	239427	8803
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	239428	919
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	0		11547
Beaverite-(Cu) ()*	Alunite	Pb(Fe³⁺₂Cu)(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	239402	132
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	1	239402	450
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1	239421	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	1	239426	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	1	239426	716
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	239427	5516
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	1	239402	1633
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	239403	27770
Caledonite ()*	Caledonite	Cu₂Pb₅(SO₄)₃(CO₃)(OH)₆	0		359
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	0		5171
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	239419,239425	4979
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	0		352
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	239427	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	4	239397,239402,239419,239427	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	239402,239417	3531
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	0		2600
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	239417	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	239402,239419,239420	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	239401,239403,239415,239425,239427	30554
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	1	239427	804
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	0		469
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	0		1066
Kyanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂OSiO₄	0		1507
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	2	239402,239429	987
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	0		14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	239402,239417	12537
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄	1	239402	247
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	239427	5800
Palygorskite ()*	Palygorskite Clay	(Mg,Al)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)·4H₂O	1	239427	306
Petzite ()*	None	Ag₃AuTe₂	1	239427	409
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	239402,239419,239427	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	239419	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	239402,239403,239427	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	239427	4894
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	239419	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	239419	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	239424	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	239419	5317
Turquoise ()*	Turquoise	CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O	1	239422	484
Variscite ()*	None	Al(PO₄)·2H₂O	2	239418,239422	301
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	0		1395

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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