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Locality Name:
Boulder Creek District, Custer Co., Idaho, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 86
Youngest recorded age at locality: 48

mindat Locality ID: 39484
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-39484.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Boulder Creek District, Custer Co., Idaho, USA": 28
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 27

Number of Child Localities: 27
Child Localities:
ASARCO Prospect
Badger Prospect
Bonita Group
Boulder Chain Lakes Prospects
Boulder Creek Deposit (Brinton; Castle Peak; Livingston Mine)
Copper Prospect (MRDS - 10089187)
Crater Prospect (G. B. Williams Antimony Mine; Lakeview Claims)
Del Yante Property
Disgust Group
Hermit Mine (Native Silver)
Jim Creek
Kirtley Prospect (Kirtly Prospect; Bachelor Mtn)
Knob Hill No. 1 Prospect
Last Chance Number Five Prospect
Little Boulder Creek Prospect (Baker Lake; Baker Lake Moly Deposit; Little Boulder Creek Moly Deposit; Fuller And Baker; Boulder Creek Molybdenum Deposit)
Little Livingston Lake Mine (Little Livingston Prospect)
Lucky Strike Prospect
Mark Twain Prospect
McClure No. 4 Claim
Porcupine Prospect
Railroad Ridge
Saratoga Prospect
Scheelite Occurrence (MRDS - 10119697)
Silver Prospect (MRDS - 10071195)
Slate Creek Prospect
Strawberry Basin Claim
Tango Prospect

Latitude: 44°8'26"N
Longitude: 114°34'50"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.140555555556,-114.58055555556

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.

Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Covellite	Cubanite	Enargite	Epsomite	Geocronite
Malachite	Marcasite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Scheelite	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Anglesite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Cubanite ()*	Cuprite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Enargite ()*	Galena ()*	Geocronite ()*	Goslarite ()*
Jamesonite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Proustite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Wurtzite ()*

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 As C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mo Ni O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Covellite Cubanite Enargite Epsomite Geocronite
Malachite Marcasite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Scheelite Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

29 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)			5	206871,206872,206877,206880,206883	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			2	206877,206891	9052
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄			1	206892	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			3	206872,206873,206880	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)			2	206877,206882	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			2	206872,206875	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	50	48	7	206867,206871,206872,206873,206875,206877,206892	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS			3	206871,206875,206880	4165
Cubanite ()*	Cubanite Wurtzite	CuFe₂S₃			1	206880	802
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	50	48	1	206867	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂			1	206882	9895
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄			1	206872	910
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			6	206872,206873,206877,206878,206881,206892	24243
Geocronite ()*	Geocronite	Pb₁₄Sb₆S₂₃			1	206877	133
Goslarite ()*	Epsomite	Zn(SO₄)·7H₂O			1	206877	188
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄			9	206871,206872,206873,206877,206880,206882,206883,206891,206892	784
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	50	48	1	206867	12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂			2	206872,206877	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	86	80.4	1	206870	5800
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈			1	206872	1512
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃			1	206872	733
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	86	80.4	9	206870,206872,206875,206877,206878,206880,206881,206891,206892	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			5	206872,206873,206875,206877,206878	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	86	48	10	206867,206870,206871,206872,206873,206875,206878,206883,206891,206892	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	86	80.4	2	206870,206885	4894
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)			1	206891	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			6	206872,206873,206875,206877,206880,206881	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			5	206871,206872,206875,206877,206880	5317
Wurtzite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnS			1	206877	372

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	NAVDAT-38647	50	48	49±1					38647						135728	Badger Prospect, Boulder Creek District, Custer Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT
	NAVDAT-14166	86	80.4	83.2±2.8					14166						136172	Boulder Creek Deposit (Brinton; Castle Peak; Livingston Mine), Boulder Creek District, Custer Co., Idaho, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

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