Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Pleasant Valley District, Baker Co., Oregon, USA

mindat Locality ID: 207608
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-207608.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pleasant Valley District, Baker Co., Oregon, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Black Bird No. 1 Claim (Golconda Nos. 1 And 2; Black Bird No. 2 Claim; Pleasant Valley Manganese; Maganese Nos. 1 And 2)
Black Caps Lode Claim (Black Lode; Foster Claims)
Black Joe Mine
Black Nigger Occurrence
Black Prince Occurrence
Canyon Site Claim (Canyon Site Claim Pleasant Valley; Baker And Herriman Prospect)
Collie No. 2 Claim
Jay Bird Claim
Jetta Mae No. 1 Occurrence
Jewell-Black Manganese Claims
Lowgrade Claims (Pleasant Val; Low Grade Prospect)
Manganese No. 3 Claim (Capitola)
Manganese No. 5 Claim (Koehler)
MP 318.4 Old Oregon Trail
Nitzlander Ranch Occurrence
Pleasant Valley Tuff (Oregon Lava Stone Company; Ideal Quarry)
Section 12 Manganese Occurrence
Seminole Claim
Sunset Nos. 1 And 2 Claims
Utah Mine (Morton Group; Member Of Stephens Group)

Latitude: 44°41'19"N
Longitude: 117°35'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.688611111111,-117.58527777778

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.

None	Quartz	Rutile

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: H Mn O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
None Quartz Rutile

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Manganite ()*	Quartz ()*

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
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)			4	255428,255434,255435,255444	770
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			2	255434,255444	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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