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:
Yuba River Placers, North San Juan, North San Juan District, Nevada Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 19983
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-19983.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Yuba River Placers, North San Juan, North San Juan District, Nevada Co., California, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 39°22'51"N
Longitude: 121°6'46"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.380833333333,-121.11277777778

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.

Copper	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Ullmannite

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 Bi Ir Ni Os Pd Rh Ru S Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Au Bi Ir Os Pd Rh Ru S Te

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper Nickeline None Pyrite Ullmannite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Hollingworthite ()*	Iridium ()*	Kotulskite ()*	Laurite ()*
Osmium ()*	Palladium ()*	Rutheniridosmine ()*	Ruthenium ()*	Vysotskite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	30554
Hollingworthite ()*	Ullmannite	RhAsS	119
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir	162
Kotulskite ()*	Nickeline	Pd(Te,Bi)_2-x (x ≈ 0.4)	116
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂	226
Osmium ()*	None	Os	169
Palladium ()*	Copper	Pd	59
Rutheniridosmine ()*	None	(Ir,Os,Ru)	47
Ruthenium ()*	None	Ru	46
Vysotskite ()*	None	PdS	53

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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