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:
Patterson District, Sweetwater Mts (Sweetwater Range), Mono Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 209251
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209251.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Patterson District, Sweetwater Mts (Sweetwater Range), Mono Co., California, USA": 27
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Mount Patterson
South Sister
Tiger Claim
Wheeler Peak

Latitude: 38°26'43"N
Longitude: 119°16'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.445277777778,-119.28194444444

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	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Corundum	Fluorite	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Spinel

Acanthite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Hessite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Stephanite ()*

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 Au Ca Cl Cu F Fe H Mo O Pb S Sb Si Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Chalcopyrite Copper Corundum Fluorite Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Spinel

15 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	164424,164428	2793
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	164428	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	3	164413,164424,164428	1382
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	3	164414,164415,164428	345
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	164431	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	164428	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	164419,164420,164423,164424,164425,164427,164428	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	164428	14640
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	2	164413,164428	804
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	164428	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	3	164413,164418,164428	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	164413,164424,164428	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	164413,164418,164419,164420,164423,164425,164427,164428	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2	164424,164428	5186
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	1	164406	586

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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