Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Green Mountain District, Piute Mts, Kern Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 209210
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209210.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Green Mountain District, Piute Mts, Kern Co., California, USA": 36
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 33

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Inspiration Point
Piute Peak (Piute Mountain)
Unspecified Marcasite Occurrence [1]
Weldon Peak

Latitude: 35°25'45"N
Longitude: 118°21'44"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.429166666667,-118.36222222222

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	Calcite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Marcasite	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Pyroxene
Quartz	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Wollastonite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Gold ()*
Marcasite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	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: Ag Al As Au C Ca Fe H Mg Mo O S Sb Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Fe S

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Marcasite Molybdenite None Pyrite Pyroxene
Quartz Scheelite Sphalerite Stibnite Wollastonite

14 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	0		9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	159971	27770
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	159974	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	159974,159978	8173
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	15	159952,159954,159956,159957,159961,159962,159964,159966,159970,159972,159975,159976,159982,159983,159986	30554
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	2	159979,159983	5674
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	159974	5800
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	159961	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	159956,159974,159983	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	159954,159971,159974,159978,159983	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	5	159959,159960,159974,159978,159983	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	159956	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	159956	3418
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	159971	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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