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Pyrrhotite from
Topside Mine, Morey Mining District, Hot Creek Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Topside Mine, Morey Mining District, Hot Creek Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:192651
Long-form Identifier:1:3:192651:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
17.6km (10.9 miles) Keyser Mine, Morey Mining District, Hot Creek Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
34.8km (21.6 miles) Tybo Mine (Treadwell-Yukon Mine; 2 G shaft; Hales shaft), Tybo Mining District, Hot Creek Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
55.8km (34.7 miles) Copper Blue Mine, Belmont Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
59.5km (36.9 miles) Perkins prospects (old Washington Mine?), Barcelona Mining District (Spanish Belt Mining District), Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
59.5km (37.0 miles) Kerr-Magee Iron Prospect, Nye County, Nevada, USA
68.5km (42.5 miles) Outlaw Mine, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
71.1km (44.2 miles) Thanksgiving Mine (Orphant patented claim; Thanksgiving Fraction claim), Mustang Hill, Manhattan, Manhattan Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
76.8km (47.7 miles) Antelope claims (Eather mine; Fish Creek Wells), Fish Creek Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
85.5km (53.1 miles) Catlin claims, Silver Bow Mining District (Silverbow Mining District), Kawich Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
85.6km (53.2 miles) Hillside Mine, Silverbow, Silver Bow Mining District (Silverbow Mining District), Kawich Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA
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