Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Alta Mine (Alta California Mine; Alta Copper Claim), Low Divide, Low Divide District, Klamath Mts, Del Norte Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 9810
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-9810.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Alta Mine (Alta California Mine; Alta Copper Claim), Low Divide, Low Divide District, Klamath Mts, Del Norte Co., California, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 41°54'18"N
Longitude: 124°1'54"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.905,-124.03166666667

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	Arsenic	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Cobaltite	Copper	Diaspore	Gypsum	Malachite	Melanterite
Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Starkeyite	Tochilinite	Valleriite	Vivianite

Aragonite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltpentlandite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Erythrite ()*
Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*
Maucherite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Starkeyite ()*	Tenorite ()*	Tochilinite ()*	Troilite ()*	Valleriite ()*

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: Al As Au Bi C Ca Co Cu Fe H Mg Ni O S Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Au Bi C Ca Co Cu Fe H Mg Ni O S Zn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenic Calcite Chalcopyrite Cobaltite Copper Diaspore Gypsum Malachite Melanterite
Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Sphalerite Spinel Starkeyite Tochilinite Valleriite Vivianite

25 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	3250
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	1966
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	27198
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	966
Cobaltpentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	Co₉S₈	82
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2970
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	814
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	6890
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	12537
Maucherite ()*	None	Ni₁₁As₈	161
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	915
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1512
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	9056
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	21482
Starkeyite ()*	Starkeyite	Mg(SO₄)·4H₂O	79
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1101
Tochilinite ()*	Tochilinite	6(Fe_0.9S)·5[(Mg,Fe)(OH)₂]	56
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1044
Valleriite ()*	Valleriite	2[(Fe,Cu)S]·1.53[(Mg,Al)(OH)₂]	237

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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