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:
South Fork Silver District, West Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 211764
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-211764.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "South Fork Silver District, West Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA": 26
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Ducket Peak
Grouse Mountain
Igo (South Fork)
Kanaka Peak
Petty Butte
South Fork Mountain

Latitude: 40°32'11"N
Longitude: 122°35'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.536388888889,-122.58361111111

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	Apatite	Aragonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

Acanthite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Freibergite ()*
Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Proustite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stephanite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 As Au C Ca Cl Cu Fe O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Apatite Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Copper None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

16 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	1	177063	2793
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	177068	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	177074	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	177080,177082,177084	27198
Freibergite ()*	Tetrahedrite	Ag₆[Cu₄Fe₂]Sb₄S₁₂	5	177063,177064,177074,177080,177082	663
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5	177071,177074,177077,177080,177082	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	16	177060,177062,177063,177064,177065,177066,177067,177070,177071,177072,177073,177074,177077,177079,177080,177084	30554
Proustite ()*	None	Ag₃AsS₃	1	177074	733
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	1	177068	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5	177064,177074,177080,177082,177084	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	177074	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	177060,177062,177063,177064,177073,177077,177084	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	3	177063,177077,177082	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	6	177063,177064,177068,177071,177077,177082	21482
Stephanite ()*	None	Ag₅SbS₄	1	177068	586
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	4	177063,177064,177074,177082	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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