Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Loraine District, Kern Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 208985
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-208985.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Loraine District, Kern Co., California, USA": 39
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 35

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Golden Cross Mine
Loraine
Millersville
Standard Mine
Sugarloaf Mountain
Twin Oaks

Latitude: 35°16'24"N
Longitude: 118°24'56"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.273333333333,-118.41555555556

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.

Acanthite	Amphibole	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Epsomite	Malachite
Melanterite	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Smectite-vermiculite
Sphalerite	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Acanthite ()*	Aurichalcite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bromargyrite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Goslarite ()*	Hemimorphite ()*	Malachite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*
Tremolite ()*	Zincite ()*

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 Br C Ca Cl Cu Fe H Mg Mo Na O Pb S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Amphibole Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Epsomite Malachite
Melanterite Molybdenite Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Smectite-vermiculite
Sphalerite Stibnite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

27 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	2	159757,159759	2793
Aurichalcite ()*	None	(Zn,Cu)₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆	1	159766	919
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	159761	11547
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	2	159757,159759	227
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	159766	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	159766	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	159766	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	2	159757,159759	1382
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	159766	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	6	159758,159759,159760,159768,159776,159792	30554
Goslarite ()*	Epsomite	Zn(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	159766	188
Hemimorphite ()*	Not in a structural group	Zn₄(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	159766	1689
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	159766	12537
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	159759	915
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	159769	5800
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	159782	1508
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	2	159757,159759	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	159757	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	159766,159792	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	2	159759,159766	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	159759,159766,159784,159792	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	3	159764,159773,159792	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	159766	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	5	159762,159773,159774,159775,159786	3418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	159757,159759	5317
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	159763	2562
Zincite ()*	Wurtzite	ZnO	1	159766	98

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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