Mineral Evolution Database

Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.

Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Excelsior Mine (Excelsior Group; Wotall; Lake/Blue Fox/C.B.C./Mammoth; Great Western Extension/California; Green Emigrant/Indian Boy/Pacific; New Hope/North Mammoth/Dam End; Great Eastern/Great Western; Confidence/Golden Eagle; Union No. 1 & 2 Claims; Of , Summit City, Meadow Lake District, Nevada Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 11067
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-11067.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Excelsior Mine (Excelsior Group; Wotall; Lake/Blue Fox/C.B.C./Mammoth; Great Western Extension/California; Green Emigrant/Indian Boy/Pacific; New Hope/North Mammoth/Dam End; Great Eastern/Great Western; Confidence/Golden Eagle; Union No. 1 & 2 Claims; Of , Summit City, Meadow Lake District, Nevada Co., California, USA": 6
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 6

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
California Mine (Great Eastern Mine)
Golden Eagle Mine
Great Eastern Mine
Indian Boy Mine
Moscow Mine
Of What Nos. 1 & 2 Mine

Latitude: 39°23'46"N
Longitude: 120°30'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.396111111111,-120.50444444444

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	Cobaltite	Copper	Melanterite	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Sphalerite

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 Co Cu Fe H Mo O S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Fe H Mo O S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Cobaltite Copper Melanterite Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Sphalerite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Bieberite ()*	Bornite ()*	Cobaltite ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*
Gold ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scorodite ()*
Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2	165784,165786	9052
Bieberite ()*	Melanterite	Co(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	165786	50
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	165784	5516
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS	1	165786	966
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	0		345
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	6	165784,165785,165786,165787,165788,165789	30554
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	0		5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	165784,165786	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	165784,165788,165789	61156
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	2	165784,165786	1153
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	165786	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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