Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Ubehebe District, Cottonwood Mts, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 174
Youngest recorded age at locality: 3.5

mindat Locality ID: 208824
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-208824.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ubehebe District, Cottonwood Mts, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo Co., California, USA": 101
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 91

Number of Child Localities: 31
Child Localities:
Big Dodd Spring
Big Gun Mine
Big Rock Mine
Blue Boy Group
Copper Giant No. 3 Mine
Copper Queen No. 1 Mine
Copper Queen No. 2 Mine
Emerald Group
Good Luck Group
Homestake Claim
Hourglass Mine
Hunter Mountain
Lake View Group
Little Dodd Spring
Lost Burro Spring
Navajo Chief Claim
Prince Group
Racetrack Valley (Racetrack Playa; The Racetrack)
Randolph Mine
Raven Mine
Red Bear Claim
Red Bell Group
Red Bird Claim
Roberts & Derat Claim
Teakettle Junction
Ubehebe Peak
Ulida Flat
Valentine Group
Watterson-Smith Mine
Wedding Stake Claim
Woodin & McConnell Claim

Latitude: 36°37'53"N
Longitude: 117°33'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.631388888889,-117.55833333333

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.

Adelite	Allophane	Alunite	Amphibole	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Caledonite
Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Copper	Covellite	Epidote	Feldspar	Fluorite	Fornacite	Garnet
Linarite	Malachite	Melilite	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scapolite	Scheelite
Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite	Vesuvianite	Wollastonite

Andradite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Azurite ()*
Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Bournonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Caledonite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*
Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Cuprotungstite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Duftite ()*
Epidote ()*	Ferrisurite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Fornacite ()*	Galena ()*
Gehlenite ()*	Gold ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Hübnerite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*
Jarosite ()*	Linarite ()*	Malachite ()*	Marialite ()*	Mimetite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Powellite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Silver ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tremolite ()*
Vanadinite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Wollastonite ()*	Wulfenite ()*	Zoisite ()*

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: Ag Al As Au Ba C Ca Cl Cr Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na O Pb S Sb Si V W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Fe O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Adelite Allophane Alunite Amphibole Apatite Aragonite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Caledonite
Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Columbite Copper Covellite Epidote Feldspar Fluorite Fornacite Garnet
Linarite Malachite Melilite Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt Scapolite Scheelite
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite Vesuvianite Wollastonite

50 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
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	174	3.5	0		1534
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	174	174	3	158467,158472,158531	2734
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	174	174	1	158467	3250
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	174	174	1	158484	919
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	174	3.5	1	158500	5509
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	174	174	1	158477	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	174	174	1	158461	5516
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃			1	158531	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			2	158508,158531	27770
Caledonite ()*	Caledonite	Cu₂Pb₅(SO₄)₃(CO₃)(OH)₆			1	158531	359
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	174	174	3	158467,158472,158531	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	174	136	4	158461,158472,158531,158533	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	174	3.5	5	158461,158500,158508,158531,158534	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	174	3.5	2	158485,158500	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	174	3.5	1	158500	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	174	174	1	158472	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	174	174	1	158475	2970
Cuprotungstite ()*	None	Cu²⁺₃(WO₄)₂(OH)₂	174	174	1	158461	67
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	174	174	3	158467,158519,158531	9895
Duftite ()*	Adelite	PbCu(AsO₄)(OH)	174	174	1	158472	220
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	138	136	2	158531,158548	8173
Ferrisurite ()*	None	Pb_2.4Fe³⁺₂Si₄O₁₀(CO₃)_1.7(OH)₃·nH₂O	174	174	1	158472	4
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			1	158531	9617
Fornacite ()*	Fornacite	CuPb₂(CrO₄)(AsO₄)(OH)	174	174	1	158472	85
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	174	174	3	158467,158472,158531	24243
Gehlenite ()*	Melilite	Ca₂Al(SiAl)O₇			1	158514	114
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			1	158529	30554
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	174	174	2	158467,158531	1689
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)			1	158506	469
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆			1	158531	1066
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆			1	158530	2228
Linarite ()*	Linarite	CuPb(SO₄)(OH)₂	174	174	2	158472,158531	987
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	174	3.5	11	158460,158461,158462,158471,158472,158475,158500,158507,158518,158533,158547	12537
Marialite ()*	Scapolite	Na₄Al₃Si₉O₂₄Cl	174	174	2	158471,158486	139
Mimetite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl	174	174	1	158472	1107
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	174	174	1	158480	5800
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	158512	2349
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	174	174	1	158480	494
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	174	136	5	158467,158472,158512,158529,158548	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	174	136	3	158459,158461,158548	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	174	174	1	158467	5186
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	174	174	2	158467,158531	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	174	174	2	158467,158531	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	174	136	2	158475,158550	5317
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	174	174	2	158481,158519	2562
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl			1	158531	605
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	174	136	2	158481,158552	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	174	174	2	158466,158482	1247
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	174	174	3	158467,158472,158531	1655
Zoisite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂Al₃[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	138	136	1	158551	1025

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_392	Ubehebe Peak is a quartz monzonite intrusion in the Last Chance Mountains of Death Valley National Monument. The host rock are steeply dipping Ordovician and Pennslyvanian strata.
Michelle_393	Hunter Mountain batholith is a quartz monzonite intrusion. Shirley Ann Claim is a metamorphosed, heavily faulted, oxidized Pb-Cu deposit occurs in the contact of the Perdido Formation (interbedded limestone) and Hunter Mountain.

5 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Age Interpret	Sample Num	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
Michelle_393	174	174	174	Age of emplacement and ore mineralization			217764	Hunter Mountain, Ubehebe District, Cottonwood Mts, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo Co., California, USA	Hunter Mountain Batholith	Chen and Moore (1982)	10.1029/JB087iB06p04761	JGR87_4761	Age of Hunter Mountain Batholith intrusion. Shirley Ann Claim formed with the introduction of the Hunter Mountain batholith in contact with the Mississippian aged Perdido Formation.
NAVDAT-21963	8.5	3.5	6±2.5		21963		78884	Green Quartz Claim (Humbug), Hunter Mountain, Ubehebe District, Cottonwood Mts, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT
NAVDAT-21964	8.5	3.5	6±2.5		21964		78884	Green Quartz Claim (Humbug), Hunter Mountain, Ubehebe District, Cottonwood Mts, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT
NAVDAT-21965	8.5	3.5	6±2.5		21965		78884	Green Quartz Claim (Humbug), Hunter Mountain, Ubehebe District, Cottonwood Mts, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT
Michelle_392	138	136	137±1	Age of quartz monzonite and aureole		Forsterite, Periclase, Tremolite, Wollastonite	219930	Ubehebe Peak, Ubehebe District, Cottonwood Mts, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo Co., California, USA	Ubehebe Peak	Roselle et al. (1999)	10.2475/ajs.299.2.93	AJS299_93	Age of quartz monzonite intrusion and introduction of magmatic fluids.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R060055	Shirley Ann Group (Shirley Ann Claim; Dodd Springs; Trail; Eureka; Sal; June; Bee Em Tee), Big Dodd Spring, Ubehebe District, Cottonwood Mts, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R060055

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