Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Spanish Dry Diggings (Spanish Dry Diggins), Greenwood District, Northwest Segment Mother Lode, Mother Lode Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 217109
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217109.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Spanish Dry Diggings (Spanish Dry Diggins), Greenwood District, Northwest Segment Mother Lode, Mother Lode Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Cederberg First Southerly Extension Mine
Cherokee Flat Mine
French Hill
Grit Mine (Liddicoat; Spanish Dry Diggings)
Hines Slope Placer (Hines-Gilbert Saybert)
Middle Fork American River Placer
Muntz Claim
New El Dorado Mine
Railroad Hill Mine (Railroad Hill Claim)
Sebastopol Mine
Unnamed Au Mine [42]
Unnamed Au Mine [43]
Waun Mine (Wavn Mine)

Latitude: 38°56'38"N
Longitude: 120°55'4"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.943888888889,-120.91777777778

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	Clay	Copper	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Serpentine

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: As Au C Ca Fe H Mg O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Clay Copper None Pyrite Quartz Serpentine

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Gold ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	154805	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	154805	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	154805,154809	27770
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	154800	951
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	18	154794,154795,154797,154798,154799,154800,154802,154803,154804,154805,154809,154810,154811,154812,154813,154814,154815,154818	30554
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	154805,154809	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	14	154794,154795,154797,154799,154800,154802,154803,154805,154809,154812,154813,154814,154815,154818	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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