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Locality Name:
Delaware District, Carson City, Nevada, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 189.2
Youngest recorded age at locality: 17.35

mindat Locality ID: 61052
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-61052.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Delaware District, Carson City, Nevada, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Ajax-Nevada
Bessemer Mine (Brunswick Canyon Prospect; Iron King Prospect)
Brunswick Canyon
Brunswick Mine
Capitol Iron Deposit (Heritage)
Comstock Extension Mine
De Nevi Manganese Deposit (Big Buck Claim; Denevi Manganese Deposit; North Star Claim)
Dixon Deposit
Gold-Silver Prospect (MRDS No. 10223243)
Gold-Silver Prospect (MRDS No. 10271997)
Gold-Silver Prospect (MRDS No. 10296140)
Gold-Silver Prospect (MRDS No. 10296481)
June Ellen Mine
McTarnahan Hill
Sally Claim Group
Tactite And Thursday Tungsten Mine (Tactite And Thursday; Tactite Thursday; Alex Eske Property; Bobolink; Brunswick Tungsten Group)
Tactite Thursday (War Bond; Old Discovery; Knight Claims; Flag)

Latitude: 39°7'41"N
Longitude: 119°38'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.128055555556,-119.64055555556

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.

Alunite	Amorphous	Autunite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Coronadite	Corundum
Epidote	Garnet	Kaolinite	Malachite	Meta-autunite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Scheelite	Spinel
Talc

Andradite ()*	Autunite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Cryptomelane ()*	Epidote ()*	Hematite ()*	Jarosite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*	Opal ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Silver ()*	Talc ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K Mg Mn O P S Si U W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ba O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Autunite Baryte Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Coronadite Corundum
Epidote Garnet Kaolinite Malachite Meta-autunite None Pyrite Quartz Scheelite Spinel
Talc

20 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
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃			2	234619,234621	1534
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O			1	234622	1272
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	189.2	17.35	0		11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄			1	234608	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	234624	27770
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS			1	234621	2600
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆	189.2	154.8	1	234612	599
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			3	234619,234621,234624	8173
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	25	17.35	3	234606,234609,234619	14640
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			1	234621	2228
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	234622	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	25	17.35	2	234606,234609	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			1	234608	12537
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O			1	234622	388
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O			1	234607	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			2	234605,234619	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	25	17.35	4	234605,234606,234620,234624	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)			5	234609,234619,234620,234621,234624	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			1	234605	5186
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂			1	234620	3337

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-54471	25	17.35	21.18+3.82/-3.83					54471						61054	Bessemer Mine (Brunswick Canyon Prospect; Iron King Prospect), Delaware District, Carson City, Nevada, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT
	NAVDAT-127312	189.2	154.8	172±17.2					127312						61053	Dixon Deposit, Delaware District, Carson City, Nevada, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

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