Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Angels Camp, Angels Camp District, Mother Lode Belt, Calaveras Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 100
Youngest recorded age at locality: 100

mindat Locality ID: 47431
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-47431.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Angels Camp, Angels Camp District, Mother Lode Belt, Calaveras Co., California, USA": 79
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 79

Number of Child Localities: 79
Child Localities:
Adelia Mine
Adeline Mine
Albany Flat Mine
Angels Camp Deep Mine (Angels Deep Mine; Hale Mine; Democrat Mine; Lindsay Mine; Johnson Mine; Brown-Smyth-Ryland Consolidated Claims; Pioneer Suffolk Claim; Martinusen Claim; Demarest Claim; Hale Extension Claim; Smyth Claim; Pat Claim)
Angels Greenstone Property
Angels Mine (Big Mine; Southwell Mine; Fox; Valentine Claims: Angels; Beda Blood; Billings; Crystal; Potter; Doctor Hill; Hennessy; McCormick; Minne; Oneida)
Anna Mine
Big Spring Claim (Big Spring Mine; Graham)
Bisbee Mine
Bolitha Mine (Figaro; Hardy; Toppiana Claim; Bolitho Claim)
Bovee Mine
C. T. Host Mine (Host Mine; Last Chance; Garnett; Ladd; Ghost Claims: Tyron; Harwood; Reidel)
Carpenter Mine (Carpenter Township 2)
Christmas Mine
Claude Mine (Cloud Mine)
Collins & Radcliff Mine (Collins And Radcliff Mine)
Cosgrove Mine
Costa Mine
Crystal Occurrence
Curiosity Mine
Drake Properties
Duffy Mine
Eresta Mine
Etna King Mine (Ziegler & North End Claims)
Foster Occurrence
Ghost Mine
Gold Cliff Mine (Excelsior Mine; Pilot Knob Claim; Peachy No. 1 Claim; Peachy No. 2 Claim; Madison Fairfax Claim)
Gold Leaf Mine
Golden Star Mine [1]
Hicks Mine
Hog Pen Mine
Holy Ghost Mine
J. B. And Golden Robin Mining Claims
January Mine
Johnson Mine
Kinney Mine
Lavagnino Prospect
Lee Mine
Lightner Mine (Eastland Mine)
Lindsey Mine (Machu Mine; Black George Mine; San Antonio Mine)
Longworth & Nugget & Mabel Fay Mine (Longworth)
Madison Mine (Lane & Tulloch Mine; Matson Mine)
Maltman Mine (Perlina)
Marble Fay Mine
Marble Springs Mine
Mary Belle Mine
Maxwell Mine
Mohawk Mine
Mother Lode Central Mines (Marble Springs Mine; Bullion Mine; Bullion And Marble Springs Claim)
Nellie Mine
North Star Mine [1] (Albany Mine; Yellow Metal Mine; New Discovery Mine)
Oriole Mine (Harris Nemo Mine; Big Bonanza Mine)
Pedit Mine
Pocket Democrat Mine
Pure Quill Mine
Purnell Mine
Ratcliffe Mine
Red Jay Mine (Red J)
Riesler Ranch Mine
Star Mine
Star Of India Mine (Curtis Mine)
Stickles & Bennett Mine (Stickles And Bennet)
Storm King Mine
Sultana Mine (Sultan Mine; Cushing Mine; Bovee Mine; Marshall Mine; Winters Mine)
Thunderbolt Mine
Tiberhin Claims (Tiberghin And Mineral Land Mining Claims)
Triple Lode Mine (Emeline; Jumper; Blair Consolidated Claims: El Dorado)
Tryon Mine
Tryon Mining Company Mine
Turner Mine
Tyron Occurrence (Greenstone)
Unknown Au Occurrence [31]
Utica Mine (Brown Mine; Brown Claim; Little Nugget Claim; Washington Claim; Utica Claim; Confidence Claim; Stickle Claim; Raspberry Claim; Dead Horse Claim; Jackson Claim)
Vista Mine (Russell Mine)
Wagon Rut Mine
Waterman Mine (Centennial Mine; Fairfax Mine; Water Man)
Winter Hills Mine
Winters Vein
Ziegler Mine

Latitude: 38°3'46"N
Longitude: 120°32'45"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.062777777778,-120.54583333333

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	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Feldspar	Gypsum	Mica	Molybdenite	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Talc

Albite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*
Margarite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
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 As Au C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Feldspar Gypsum Mica Molybdenite None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Talc

17 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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	100	100	3	152982,153049,153054	8803
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	100	100	5	152982,153015,153043,153050,153052	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	100	100	1	153043	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	100	100	5	152982,153015,153043,153049,153050	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	100	100	1	152985	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	100	100	2	153015,153049	27198
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	100	100	2	153049,153053	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	100	100	1	152982	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	100	100	69	152977,152978,152979,152980,152982,152983,152984,152985,152986,152987,152988,152989,152990,152991,152992,152993,152994,152995,152996,152997,152998,152999,153000,153002,153003,153004,153005,153006,153007,153008,153010,153011,153014,153015,153016,153017,153018,153019,153020,153021,153022,153023,153024,153025,153026,153027,153028,153029,153030,153031,153032,153033,153034,153035,153036,153037,153038,153039,153040,153041,153043,153045,153046,153049,153050,153051,153052,153053,153055	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	100	100	1	153049	6890
Margarite ()*	Mica Clay	CaAl₂Si₂Al₂O₁₀(OH)₂	100	100	1	153003	168
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	100	100	1	152980	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	100	100	3	152982,153015,153049	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	100	100	11	152982,152984,152986,152991,152993,153003,153015,153043,153049,153050,153052	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	100	100	58	152978,152979,152982,152983,152985,152986,152987,152988,152989,152990,152991,152992,152993,152994,152996,152997,152998,152999,153000,153003,153004,153005,153006,153007,153008,153010,153011,153014,153015,153016,153017,153019,153020,153021,153022,153023,153025,153026,153029,153030,153032,153033,153034,153035,153036,153037,153038,153039,153040,153041,153043,153045,153046,153049,153050,153051,153052,153055	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	100	100	1	152980	5186
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	100	100	6	152982,152993,153015,153037,153040,153049	3337

1 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
	Mo-00156	100	100								Yes		Molybdenite	Mo	16293	Calaveras Co., California, USA	Calaveras County	Brock (1972)	10.1130/0016-7606(1972)83[3391:GOGHSC]2.0.CO;2	GSAB83_3391

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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