Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Kern River Uranium District, Kern Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 208864
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-208864.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kern River Uranium District, Kern Co., California, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Miracle Hot Springs (Hobo Hot Springs)

Latitude: 35°34'8"N
Longitude: 118°34'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.568888888889,-118.57055555556

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.

Amorphous	Aragonite	Autunite	Calcite	Columbite	Fluorite	Meta-autunite	Mica	None	Pyrite
Zircon

Autunite ()*	Calcite ()*	Carnotite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Coffinite ()*
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Fluorite ()*	Ilsemannite ()*	Jordisite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*
Metazeunerite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Roscoelite ()*	Torbernite ()*	Uraninite ()*
Uranophane-α ()*	Walpurgite ()*

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 Bi C Ca Ce Cu F Fe H K Mo Nb O P Pb S Si Ta Th Ti U V Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe Nb O S Ti Y

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Aragonite Autunite Calcite Columbite Fluorite Meta-autunite Mica None Pyrite
Zircon

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	4	159679,159682,159683,159684	1272
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	159683	27770
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	2	159682,159683	1184
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	159679	4979
Coffinite ()*	Zircon	U(SiO₄)·nH₂O	1	159681	566
Euxenite-(Y) ()*	Columbite	Y(NbTi)O₆	0		414
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	159679	9617
Ilsemannite ()*	None	Mo₃O₈·nH₂O (?)	2	159679,159682	123
Jordisite ()*	Amorphous	MoS₂	1	159679	102
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	1	159682	388
Metazeunerite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	2	159679,159681	182
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	0		39462
Roscoelite ()*	Mica	KV³⁺₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	159682	253
Torbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O	1	159682	1059
Uraninite ()*	Fluorite	UO₂	3	159679,159681,159682	2718
Uranophane-α ()*	None	Ca(UO₂)₂(SiO₃OH)₂·5H₂O	2	159679,159682	890
Walpurgite ()*	None	Bi₄O₄(UO₂)(AsO₄)₂·2H₂O	1	159682	38

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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