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:
Placerville District, Mother Lode Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 209647
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209647.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Placerville District, Mother Lode Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA": 227
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 214

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Chili Bar
Diamond Springs
Five Mile Terrace
Motor City
Placerville (Hangtown)
Smithflat
Tiger Lily

Latitude: 38°43'44"N
Longitude: 120°46'6"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.728888888889,-120.76833333333

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	Brookite	Chlorite	Clay	Copper	Diamond	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Talc

Anatase ()*	Ankerite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Brookite ()*	Carnotite ()*
Clinochlore ()*	Diamond ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*
Maldonite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Silver ()*	Talc ()*

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 Bi C Ca Fe H K Mg Mo O Pb S Si Ti U V

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Brookite Chlorite Clay Copper Diamond Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Talc

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂	1	154991	2162
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	154855	3092
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	154956	9052
Brookite ()*	Brookite	TiO₂	1	154991	700
Carnotite ()*	None	K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O	1	154991	1184
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	1	154956	1756
Diamond ()*	Diamond	C	3	154895,155025,155027	697
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	154922,154966	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	113	154823,154827,154828,154829,154830,154833,154834,154835,154836,154839,154840,154841,154842,154843,154844,154847,154848,154849,154850,154851,154852,154853,154855,154856,154857,154860,154861,154863,154865,154866,154874,154877,154879,154888,154889,154890,154891,154892,154896,154898,154901,154902,154903,154904,154907,154910,154912,154915,154917,154921,154922,154924,154926,154927,154928,154930,154931,154932,154933,154934,154937,154939,154942,154943,154944,154945,154946,154948,154949,154950,154951,154953,154955,154956,154957,154959,154961,154962,154963,154965,154966,154969,154970,154974,154975,154980,154981,154985,154986,154987,154988,154990,154992,154994,154995,154996,154997,154998,155002,155009,155012,155015,155018,155024,155028,155029,155033,155036,155040,155041,155042,155043,155045	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	154942	2812
Maldonite ()*	None	Au₂Bi	1	154903	88
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	154956	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	154889,154956	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	4	154922,154930,154956,154969	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	68	154823,154827,154828,154830,154833,154835,154836,154839,154840,154842,154843,154844,154848,154849,154850,154851,154852,154853,154856,154857,154860,154861,154865,154866,154877,154889,154890,154891,154898,154904,154910,154912,154915,154917,154921,154922,154924,154926,154927,154930,154931,154932,154933,154934,154937,154942,154943,154945,154946,154948,154949,154950,154953,154959,154961,154962,154965,154966,154969,154979,154991,155002,155015,155033,155040,155041,155042,155043	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	154956	5186
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2	154889,154956	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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