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:
Lucerne Valley Limestone District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 209067
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209067.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lucerne Valley Limestone District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Lucerne Lake (Lucerne Dry Lake)
Lucerne Valley

Latitude: 34°27'57"N
Longitude: 116°56'54"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.465833333333,-116.94833333333

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.

Amorphous	Aragonite	Brucite	Calcite	Copper	Epidote	Garnet	None	Pyroxene	Vesuvianite
Wollastonite

Aragonite ()*	Brucite ()*	Calcite ()*	Diopside ()*	Dolomite ()*
Gold ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Opal ()*	Piemontite ()*
Rhodochrosite ()*	Spessartine ()*	Taenite ()*	Vesuvianite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

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 Au C Ca F Fe H Mg Mn Na Ni O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Aragonite Brucite Calcite Copper Epidote Garnet None Pyroxene Vesuvianite
Wollastonite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	1	172236	3250
Brucite ()*	Brucite	Mg(OH)₂	1	172235	462
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	172236	27770
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	172236	4135
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	2	172233,172236	9895
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	172237	30554
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	172235	341
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	1	172233	1487
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	1	172236	2994
Piemontite ()*	Epidote	Ca₂(Al₂Mn³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	172236	260
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	172236	1711
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	172236	1214
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	172224	703
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1	172236	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	172236	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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