Mineral Evolution Database
Created and maintained by the Mineral Evolution Project in partnership with RRUFF and mindat.
Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

Important Update News

The RRUFF Project has been migrated to RRUFF.net. Please update your bookmarks immediately, if you have not done so.

The data on this website is already three years out of date, and the entire website will be taken offline before the end of the year.

We are grateful to NASA for the funding of this effort.




The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Ord Mountain, Ord Mts, Ord District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 210282
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-210282.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ord Mountain, Ord Mts, Ord District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 96
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 93

Number of Child Localities: 46
Child Localities:
Blue Nite Prospect
France Claim
Gold Banner Mine
Greenback Mine
Little Roger Prospect
Martha Prospect (Silver Star Lode Mining Claim)
McKnight Cornish Stone Mine (Calspar Mine; Calspar Pit)
Mile High Manganese-Travertine Claim (Unnamed Manganese-Travertine Deposit)
OK Prospect
Ord Mountain Iron Prospect (Newberry Mountains Mine; Newberry Mtns Mine; Ord Mountain Mine; Unnamed Deposit)
Ord Mountain Mine (Ord Mountain Mine System; Ord Mine; Ord Mountain Deposits; Osborn; Rio Vista Claim; Brilliant Claim; Josephine Claim; Belgium Claim; Copper Junction Claim)
Painsville Mine
Red Hills Prospect (L. Shouse Mines)
Sunset Vein
Tao Mine
Unnamed Ag-Au Prospect [1] (Unnamed Shaft Prospect)
Unnamed Au Placer Prospect [216]
Unnamed Au Placer Prospect [217]
Unnamed Au Placer Prospects [212]
Unnamed Au Prospect [113]
Unnamed Au Prospect [143]
Unnamed Au Prospect [146]
Unnamed Au Prospect [184]
Unnamed Au Prospect [195]
Unnamed Au Prospect [196]
Unnamed Au Prospect [23] (Unnamed Shaft Prospect)
Unnamed Au Prospect [45]
Unnamed Au Prospect [66]
Unnamed Au Prospect [91]
Unnamed Au-Cu-Pb Prospect [2]
Unnamed Au-Cu-Pb-Mo-Ag Prospect [1] (Northwest Area Of Veins)
Unnamed Au-Pb Prospect [1]
Unnamed Au-Pb Prospect [4]
Unnamed Ca Prospect [2]
Unnamed Cu Prospect [19]
Unnamed Cu Prospect [27]
Unnamed Cu Prospect [43]
Unnamed Cu Prospect [49]
Unnamed Cu Prospect [58]
Unnamed Cu-Mo Prospect [1]
Unnamed Fe Prospect [10]
Unnamed Pb-Cu Prospect [1]
Unnamed Pb-Cu Prospect [3]
Unnamed Silica Occurrence [1]
Unspecified Sillimanite Occurrence [1]
White Dollar Mine (May Day Mine; Mayday Tungsten Mine)

Latitude: 34°42'39"N
Longitude: 116°49'40"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.710833333333,-116.82777777778

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: Al Au Ba C Ca Ce Cl Cu F Fe H K Mg Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si Sr Ti V W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllophaneAluniteAmphiboleApatiteAtacamiteBaryteBrochantiteCalciteChalcopyriteClay
ClinozoisiteConnelliteCopperCyanotrichiteDescloiziteEpidoteFeldsparFluoriteGypsumHeulandite
MalachiteMicaMolybdeniteNoneNot in a structural groupPyriteQuartzScheeliteSpangoliteSpinel
TetrahedriteTitanite

37 IMA Minerals at location:
Actinolite  (*)Albite  (*)Atacamite  (*)Azurite  (*)Baryte  (*)
Bornite  (*)Brochantite  (*)Calcite  (*)Cerianite-(Ce)  (*)Chalcocite  (*)
Chalcopyrite  (*)Chrysocolla  (*)Connellite  (*)Copper  (*)Creedite  (*)
Cyanotrichite  (*)Descloizite  (*)Epidote  (*)Fluorite  (*)Gold  (*)
Gypsum  (*)Heulandite-Sr  (*)Jarosite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Malachite  (*)
Molybdenite  (*)Mottramite  (*)Muscovite  (*)Phosphohedyphane  (*)Powellite  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)Sillimanite  (*)Spangolite  (*)
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)Titanite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite  (*)Amphibole   Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe2+0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)211727273419
Albite  (*)FeldsparNa(AlSi3O8)11727278803
Atacamite  (*)AtacamiteCu2Cl(OH)31172692544
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)24172688,172689,172691,1726925509
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)6172679,172688,172689,172691,172692,17269611547
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS43172680,172688,1726905516
Brochantite  (*)BrochantiteCu4(SO4)(OH)611726911633
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)3172688,172691,17272727770
Cerianite-(Ce)  (*)FluoriteCeO2117268994
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S2172688,1726905707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS25172680,172688,172689,172690,17269127198
Chrysocolla  (*)Allophane(Cu2-xAlx)H2-xSi2O5(OH)4·nH2O4172681,172688,172689,1726913531
Connellite  (*)ConnelliteCu36(SO4)(OH)62Cl8·6H2O1172691295
Copper  (*)CopperCu11726813846
Creedite  (*)NoneCa3Al2(SO4)(OH)2F8·2H2O117269148
Cyanotrichite  (*)CyanotrichiteCu4Al2(SO4)(OH)12(H2O)21172691179
Descloizite  (*)DescloizitePbZn(VO4)(OH)1172692378
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)3172688,172692,1727278173
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF25172689,172691,172692,172695,1726969617
Gold  (*)CopperAu2172688,17269230554
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O11726926890
Heulandite-Sr  (*)Heulandite(Sr,Ca,Na)5(Si27Al9)O72·24H2O11726929
Jarosite  (*)AluniteKFe3+3(SO4)2(OH)611726912228
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4117268714899
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)24172688,172689,172691,17269212537
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS211726945800
Mottramite  (*)DescloizitePbCu(VO4)(OH)1172692362
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2117268817380
Phosphohedyphane  (*)ApatiteCa2Pb3(PO4)3Cl117269271
Powellite  (*)ScheeliteCa(MoO4)1172694494
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2117268839462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO26172681,172688,172689,172690,172691,17269361156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)3172686,172688,1727274894
Sillimanite  (*)Not in a structural groupAl2SiO511727261516
Spangolite  (*)SpangoliteCu6Al(SO4)(OH)12Cl·3H2O1172691105
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1311726885317
Titanite  (*)TitaniteCaTi(SiO4)O11726924899



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

SampleSource LocalityReference URL


All locality data graciously provided by mindat.org

All age data...

Other copyright data...