Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
San Rafael Mts, Santa Barbara Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 165
Youngest recorded age at locality: 165

mindat Locality ID: 208645
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-208645.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "San Rafael Mts, Santa Barbara Co., California, USA": 66
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 50

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Barytes
Bull Run Prospect (Bull Run Deposit)
Cachuma District
Colson Summit Quarry
Cuyama Roadless Area Review & Evaluation (RARE) II Area
Eagle Mine (White Elephant Mine; La Brea Deposit; North Fork La Brea Creek)
Fox Mountain Roadless Area Review & Evaluation (RARE) II Area
Labrea Roadless Area Review & Evaluation (RARE) II Area
Laguna Ranch
Las Cruces Quarry (1)
Latigo Canyon
San Rafael Wilderness Area (San Rafael Primitive Area)
Santa Barbara Creek
Zaca Lake Prospect (Zaca Lake Deposit)

Latitude: 34°49'33"N
Longitude: 119°55'17"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.825833333333,-119.92138888889

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	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Gypsum	Kaolinite	Malachite	Melanterite	None
Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel

Antlerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Azurite ()*	Baryte ()*	Boothite ()*
Cassiterite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Dickite ()*
Enstatite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hercynite ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*	Magnesiochromite ()*
Magnesite ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cr Cu Fe H Hg Mg O S Si Sn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Fe O Sn

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Gypsum Kaolinite Malachite Melanterite None
Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Spinel

19 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
Antlerite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu²⁺₃(SO₄)(OH)₄			1	175922	246
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			1	175933	3250
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂			1	175972	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	175965	11547
Boothite ()*	Melanterite	Cu(SO₄)·7H₂O			1	175931	18
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	165	165	0		5171
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			1	175922	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄			6	175921,175928,175933,175937,175941,175943	3902
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS			5	175935,175942,175946,175952,175955	2600
Dickite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄			1	175946	651
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆			1	175926	944
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			4	175960,175963,175964,175980	6890
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	165	165	0		407
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O			1	175932	341
Magnesiochromite ()*	Spinel	MgCr₂O₄	165	165	8	175917,175920,175923,175938,175940,175944,175953,175981	311
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)			1	175934	1487
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			1	175971	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			1	175922	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			3	175922,175947,175971	61156

1 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
	podchrome-00017	165	165	Middle Jurassic (165.57±0.38 CA-TIMS, zircon in plagiogranite)										Cr	92104	Bacon Mine (Bacon Deposit; O'Donnell And Burns Mining Company; O'Donnell And Byrne Mine; O.B. Mine; O And B Mine), Cachuma Village, Cachuma District, San Rafael Mts, Santa Barbara Co., California, USA	Bacon	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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