Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Soulsbyville & Confidence District, East Belt, Tuolumne Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 208647
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-208647.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Soulsbyville & Confidence District, East Belt, Tuolumne Co., California, USA": 196
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 177

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Arastraville
Belleview
Brentwood Park
Buchanan
Cherokee
Confidence
High Sierra Park
Long Barn
Marble Mountain
Mi-Wuk Village
Mono Vista
Sierra Village
Soulsbyville
Standard
Sugarpine
Thompson Peak
Tuolumne
Twain Harte

Latitude: 38°1'0"N
Longitude: 120°12'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.016666666667,-120.20777777778

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	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Garnet	Marcasite	Nickeline	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Talc	Tetradymite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Marcasite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodonite ()*
Scheelite ()*	Spessartine ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*	Tetradymite ()*

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 As Au Bi Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mn O Pb S Si Te W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Garnet Marcasite Nickeline None
Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite Talc Tetradymite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	183246	9052
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	5	183141,183142,183225,183246,183256	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	183210,183212	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	18	183124,183181,183186,183190,183191,183198,183207,183208,183216,183236,183246,183254,183256,183259,183263,183270,183280,183300	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	91	183120,183123,183124,183125,183126,183129,183133,183139,183141,183142,183147,183148,183150,183151,183152,183155,183156,183157,183158,183159,183162,183166,183168,183169,183171,183172,183176,183177,183178,183181,183183,183186,183190,183191,183192,183193,183198,183199,183201,183207,183208,183215,183216,183223,183224,183228,183229,183231,183234,183236,183237,183240,183246,183247,183248,183250,183251,183253,183254,183256,183259,183260,183261,183262,183263,183265,183267,183270,183272,183275,183278,183280,183283,183285,183287,183288,183290,183291,183293,183296,183297,183298,183299,183300,183301,183302,183304,183305,183312,183313,183314	30554
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	4	183124,183246,183254,183263	5674
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	14	183124,183141,183142,183190,183207,183208,183210,183216,183246,183256,183259,183263,183270,183300	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	8	183124,183181,183191,183210,183246,183254,183256,183263	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	14	183120,183124,183151,183152,183158,183166,183210,183229,183246,183256,183263,183280,183288,183291	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	183309	969
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	183210	4894
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	2	183307,183309	1214
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	10	183124,183181,183186,183191,183207,183236,183246,183254,183256,183263	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	183308	3337
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	1	183256	510

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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