Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Alice District, Clear Creek Co., Colorado, USA

mindat Locality ID: 49874
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-49874.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Alice District, Clear Creek Co., Colorado, USA": 27
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 25

Number of Child Localities: 23
Child Localities:
Alice Mine
Ames Load
Charcoal Charlie
Clara
Faust (Lombard Mill; Cumberland; Lombard Occurrence)
Gold Anchor Occurrence
Gold Dollar
Harlem
Log Cabin
Lombard Placer Mine
Meteor
Miss Dividends
Nettie B.
Ninety-Four Tunnel
Old Stone Wall
Ottawa
Puritan
Sheridan Hill
Unknown Gold - Silver Occurrence (MRDS - 10018175)
Unknown Gold - Silver Occurrence (MRDS - 10018264)
Unknown Silver - Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10018174)
Unknown Silver - Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10018326)
Unknown Silver - Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10091470)

Latitude: 39°49'10"N
Longitude: 105°38'8"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.819444444444,-105.63555555556

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.

Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcanthite	Chalcopyrite	Chalcostibite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Fluorite
Lillianite	Meneghinite	Mica	None	Pavonite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

Aikinite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Benjaminite ()*	Bornite ()*
Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Covellite ()*	Cupropavonite ()*
Emplectite ()*	Friedrichite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hammarite ()*
Heyrovskýite ()*	Hodrušite ()*	Krupkaite ()*	Matildite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Pavonite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Silver ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Uraninite ()*

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 Cu Fe H K O Pb S Si U Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcanthite Chalcopyrite Chalcostibite Clay Copper Covellite Fluorite
Lillianite Meneghinite Mica None Pavonite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aikinite ()*	Meneghinite	CuPbBiS₃	2	185766,185767	315
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	185766	9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	185766,185767	11547
Benjaminite ()*	Pavonite	Ag₃Bi₇S₁₂	2	185766,185767	45
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	185767	5516
Chalcanthite ()*	Chalcanthite	Cu(SO₄)·5H₂O	2	185766,185767	925
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	2	185766,185767	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	185766,185767,185780	27198
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	2	185766,185767	4165
Cupropavonite ()*	Pavonite	Cu_0.9Ag_0.5Pb_0.6Bi_2.5S₅	1	185766	18
Emplectite ()*	Chalcostibite	CuBiS₂	2	185766,185767	246
Friedrichite ()*	Meneghinite	Cu₅Pb₅Bi₇S₁₈	1	185766	43
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	185780	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	11	185766,185767,185771,185772,185786,185787,185788,185789,185790,185791,185792	30554
Hammarite ()*	Meneghinite	Cu₂Pb₂Bi₄S₉	1	185766	43
Heyrovskýite ()*	Lillianite	Pb₆Bi₂S₉	1	185767	66
Hodrušite ()*	None	Cu₈Bi₁₂S₂₂	1	185766	28
Krupkaite ()*	Meneghinite	PbCuBi₃S₆	1	185766	80
Matildite ()*	None	AgBiS₂	2	185766,185767	252
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	185766	17380
Pavonite ()*	Pavonite	AgBi₃S₅	1	185766	72
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	185766,185767,185780	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	185766,185767,185780	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	2	185766,185767	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	10	185767,185771,185772,185786,185787,185788,185789,185790,185791,185792	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	185766,185767,185780	21482
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	1	185772	2718

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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