Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cambria, Cambria-Oceanic District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 5.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 212336
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-212336.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cambria, Cambria-Oceanic District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo Co., California, USA": 36
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 31

Number of Child Localities: 24
Child Localities:
Bianchi Quarry
Black Mountain Area
Black Mountain Prospect
Cambria Mine (Bank Mine; Red Hill Workings; La Trinidad Mine)
Cambria Pit
Fitzhugh Ranch Mine (Benton Ranch; Lehman; Leman)
Gambrie Mine
Gemstone Nos. 1; 2; & 3
Kiser Ranch
Marquart Mine (Cambria Mine; Marquart Estate Prospect)
Moonstone Beach
Mora Brothers Quarry
Mount Butte Chromite Property
Oceanic Mine
Phelan Ranch Deposits
Pine Mountain
Rancho San Simeon Pit
Rogers Ranch Occurrence
San Simeon Creek
San Simeon Creek Shell Deposits
Unnamed Limestone Deposit (2)
Vulture Mine
Warren Prospect
Wittenberg Ranch Mine

Latitude: 35°36'46"N
Longitude: 121°2'32"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.612777777778,-121.04222222222

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.

Amorphous	Calcite	Corundum	Feldspar	None	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Sphalerite	Spinel
Stibnite

Albite ()*	Calomel ()*	Cervantite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Hematite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Mercury ()*	Metacinnabar ()*	Opal ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Schuetteite ()*	Stibiconite ()*	Stibnite ()*

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 C Cl Cr Fe H Hg Mg Na O S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Calcite Corundum Feldspar None Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Sphalerite Spinel
Stibnite

15 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	5.3	1	175514	8803
Calomel ()*	None	HgCl	5.3	1	175527	91
Cervantite ()*	None	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺O₄	5.3	1	175523	352
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	5.3	1	175540	3902
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	5.3	15	175516,175518,175523,175527,175531,175532,175533,175534,175535,175536,175537,175538,175546,175547,175548	2600
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	5.3	1	175527	14640
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	5.3	1	175522	1487
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	5.3	1	175527	397
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	5.3	1	175532	255
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	5.3	1	175527	2994
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5.3	2	175537,175543	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5.3	5	175514,175516,175524,175532,175543	61156
Schuetteite ()*	None	Hg₃O₂(SO₄)	0	1	175527	21
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	5.3	1	175523	446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	5.3	1	175543	3418

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Hg-00129	5.3	0		?-?						Yes		Calomel, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Schuetteite	Hg	209348	Cambria-Oceanic District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo Co., California, USA	California Mercury Occurrences	Studemeister (1984)	10.1007/BF00199786	MD19_202

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R080079	Oceanic Mine, Cambria, Cambria-Oceanic District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R080079

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