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Locality Name:
Magalia, Magalia District, Butte Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 204
Youngest recorded age at locality: 204

mindat Locality ID: 209117
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209117.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Magalia, Magalia District, Butte Co., California, USA": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Bader Brothers Placer Mine
Big Joe Mine
Chrysoprase Occurrence
Pitts Mine (Mowry And Newman Mine; Bader Mine; Old Bader Mine)
Ramona Mine (Skipper Mine)
Red Hill Mine
Sawmill Peak
Willard Consolidated Quartz Mine (Genii Mine; Genii Mining Company Lease)

Latitude: 39°48'46"N
Longitude: 121°34'12"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.812777777778,-121.57

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: Au Cr Fe O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNoneQuartzSpinel

3 IMA Minerals at location:
Chromite  (*)Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O42042042151639,1516443902
Gold  (*)CopperAu10151632,151633,151635,151636,151637,151640,151641,151642,151643,15164530554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO27151633,151636,151637,151638,151641,151642,15164561156



2 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
podchrome-00200204204Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic or older (204±2 Ma U-Pb zircon on leucodiorite)       Cr74074Christian Place Occurrence, Sawmill Peak, Magalia, Magalia District, Butte Co., California, USAChristian PlaceMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 
podchrome-00201204204Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic or older (204±2 Ma U-Pb zircon on leucodiorite)       Cr74271Parkeson Claim (Old Utah Mine), Sawmill Peak, Magalia, Magalia District, Butte Co., California, USAParkeson ClaimMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 


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