Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Blind Spring Hill, Benton, Blind Spring District (Blind Spring Hill District; Benton District), Benton Range, Mono Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 0.761
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0.759

mindat Locality ID: 3508
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3508.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Blind Spring Hill, Benton, Blind Spring District (Blind Spring Hill District; Benton District), Benton Range, Mono Co., California, USA": 32
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 28

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Buscones Peak
Comet Mine
Diana Peak
Mathieu Pumice Deposit (Mathieu Deposit)
Modoc Peak

Latitude: 37°45'26"N
Longitude: 118°29'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.757222222222,-118.49138888889

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.

Allophane	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Caledonite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Covellite	Linarite
Malachite	Minium	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

Anglesite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bindheimite ()*	Caledonite ()*	Cerussite ()*
Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Covellite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Linarite ()*	Malachite ()*	Massicot ()*	Mimetite ()*
Minium ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Stromeyerite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Wulfenite ()*

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 Cl Cu Fe H Mo O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As C Cl Cu H Mo O P Pb S Sb

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Caledonite Chalcopyrite Copper Covellite Linarite
Malachite Minium None Not in a structural group Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Stibnite
Tetrahedrite

27 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
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	0.761	0.759	0		2734
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			2	163991,163992	5509
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇	0.761	0.759	0		450
Caledonite ()*	Caledonite	Cu₂Pb₅(SO₄)₃(CO₃)(OH)₆	0.761	0.759	0		359
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)			2	163980,163985	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			3	163990,163991,163992	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			2	163985,163990	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O			3	163990,163991,163992	3531
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	0.761	0.759	0		4165
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			3	163980,163985,163990	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			2	163979,163997	30554
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	0.761	0.759	0		987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			4	163980,163990,163991,163992	12537
Massicot ()*	None	PbO			1	163990	202
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	0.761	0.759	0		1107
Minium ()*	Minium	Pb²⁺₂Pb⁴⁺O₄	0.761	0.759	0		247
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃			1	163985	1425
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	0.761	0.759	0		1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			3	163985,163990,163997	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)			1	163990	6417
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			2	163990,163991	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			1	163990	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄			1	163985	586
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃			3	163987,163990,163991	3418
Stromeyerite ()*	None	CuAgS			1	163985	332
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			5	163980,163985,163987,163990,163991	5317
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	0.761	0.759	0		1655

2 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
	NAVDAT-3800	0.761	0.759	0.76±0.001					3800						83308	Rae-Spencer Pumice Deposit, Diana Peak, Blind Spring Hill, Benton, Blind Spring District (Blind Spring Hill District; Benton District), Benton Range, Mono Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT
	NAVDAT-3801	0.761	0.759	0.76±0.001					3801						83308	Rae-Spencer Pumice Deposit, Diana Peak, Blind Spring Hill, Benton, Blind Spring District (Blind Spring Hill District; Benton District), Benton Range, Mono Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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