Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Bodie, Bodie District, Bodie Hills, Mono Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 3506
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3506.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bodie, Bodie District, Bodie Hills, Mono Co., California, USA": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 24
Child Localities:
Arco Placer And Bryant Placer
Bechtel Consolidated Mine
Bodie Mine (Bodie Project)
Bodie Placer No. 99; Ceres Placer No. 120; And Uranus Placer No. 100
Boston Consolidated Mine
Bulwer Mine
El Dorado Group
Fifty-One Mining Claims
Fortuna Mine
Goodshaw Mine
Johnson Occurrence (Mars; Johnson Mars Palfrey And Russian)
Jupiter Mine
McClinton Mine
Mono Shaft Mine
New Bodie Mine (Syndicate Mine)
New Enterprise Mine (Bishop Mine; Adrian And Ore Mine; Blackrock Consolidated Mine)
Northeast Of Bodie
Relich Claim
Southern Consolidated Mine (Oro Mine; Defiance Mine; Noonday Mine; Red Cloud Mine; Addenda Mine)
Standard Hill Mine
Standard Mine
Unnamed Au Mine [3]
Unnamed Au Placer [1]
Unnamed Hg Occurrence [1]

Latitude: 38°12'42"N
Longitude: 119°'2"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.211666666667,-119.00055555556

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.

Acanthite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum	Feldspar	Mica	None	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Talc

Acanthite ()*	Albite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Kalinite ()*
Muscovite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*	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 Cl Cu Fe H Hg K Mg Na O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum Feldspar Mica None Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Talc

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	164111	2793
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	164130	8803
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	164111	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	164111	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	164111	1382
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	164133	2600
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	164111	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	16	164110,164111,164113,164114,164115,164116,164118,164120,164121,164122,164123,164124,164127,164129,164130,164131	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	164111	14640
Kalinite ()*	None	KAl(SO₄)₂·11H₂O	1	164125	54
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	164111,164129	17380
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	3	164111,164127,164128	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	4	164111,164117,164127,164128	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	164111	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	14	164110,164111,164113,164115,164116,164118,164120,164121,164123,164124,164127,164129,164130,164131	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	164111	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	164111	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	3	164117,164127,164128	586
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	164129	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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