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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:
Big Bar Mountain, Butte Co., California, USA

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

mindat Locality ID: 211749
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-211749.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Big Bar Mountain, Butte Co., California, USA": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
American Eagle Mine
Annie Mae Placer Mine
Big Wonder Claim
Bishop And Wells Mine (Bishop And Well Mine)
Coyote Gap Guard Station Occurrence
Hard Times Placer Mine
Hornet Mine
Last Chance Placer Mine
Liberty Bond Claim
Little Hope And Mary Jane Claims
Little Hope Mine (Eagle)
Mary Jane Mine
River Side Claim
Section 13 Occurrence (Happy Hollow; Southern Pacific Property; April Fool [?])
St. Regis Placer Mine
Swayne Mine (Big Pine Claim)
Unspecified Chrysoberyl Occurrence (1)
War Bond Group (Liberty Group W. W. I)

Latitude: 39°46'29"N
Longitude: 121°23'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.774722222222,-121.39166666667

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 Be Cr Fe H Mg O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ClayCopperNoneOlivineQuartzSpinelTalc

5 IMA Minerals at location:
Chromite  (*)Chrysoberyl  (*)Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)Talc  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O42042048151349,151355,151356,151358,151359,151360,151362,1513643902
Chrysoberyl  (*)OlivineBeAl2O41151363321
Gold  (*)CopperAu6151347,151348,151350,151352,151357,15136130554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO23151347,151350,15135761156
Talc  (*)Clay TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)22042042151351,1513563337



6 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-00210204204Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic or older (204±2 Ma U-Pb zircon on leucodiorite)       Cr74203Liberty Bond Claim, Big Bar Mountain, Butte Co., California, USALiberty Bond ClaimMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 
podchrome-00205204204Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic or older (204±2 Ma U-Pb zircon on leucodiorite)       Cr74205Little Hope And Mary Jane Claims, Big Bar Mountain, Butte Co., California, USALittle HopeMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 
podchrome-00206204204Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic or older (204±2 Ma U-Pb zircon on leucodiorite)       Cr74205Little Hope And Mary Jane Claims, Big Bar Mountain, Butte Co., California, USAMary JaneMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 
podchrome-00208204204Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic or older (204±2 Ma U-Pb zircon on leucodiorite)       Cr74318Section 13 Occurrence (Happy Hollow; Southern Pacific Property; April Fool [?]), Big Bar Mountain, Butte Co., California, USASection 13Moiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 
podchrome-00207204204Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic or older (204±2 Ma U-Pb zircon on leucodiorite)       Cr74352Swayne Mine (Big Pine Claim), Big Bar Mountain, Butte Co., California, USABig PineMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 
podchrome-00209204204Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic or older (204±2 Ma U-Pb zircon on leucodiorite)       Cr74352Swayne Mine (Big Pine Claim), Big Bar Mountain, Butte Co., California, USASwayneMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 


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