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Locality Name:
Chuckwalla Mountain, Kern Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 212404
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-212404.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Chuckwalla Mountain, Kern Co., California, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Amalia Mine (Cowboy No. 1)
Aquaduct Road Area Occurrence
Carbonate Prospect
Mammouth Prospect (Mammoth Prospect)
Martin Beck Occurrence (Beck; Beck Mercury Mine)
Miles Prospect
Pine Canyon (Pine Tree Canyon ?)
Pine Tree Canyon (Lone Tree Canyon)
Red Hill Deposit
Tardy Prospect (Tardy Claims)
Undetermined Hg Occurrence [3]
Unnamed Hg Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Hg Occurrence [4]
Unnamed Quartz Occurrence [1]
Unspecified Hg-Pb-Mo Occurrences [1]
White Rock Deposit (American Mineral Company; Williams Deposit; White Point Claims; White Rock Quarry; Jawbone Canyon Deposit; Cornwall Claims)
You-Name-It Deposit

Latitude: 35°16'25"N
Longitude: 118°3'47"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.273611111111,-118.06305555556

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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K Mo O Pb S Sb Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteClayCopperFeldsparKaoliniteNoneQuartz
RocksaltScheelite

13 IMA Minerals at location:
Aragonite  (*)Baryte  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Cinnabar  (*)
Copper  (*)Galena  (*)Kaolinite  (*)Mercury  (*)Orthoclase  (*)
Quartz  (*)Valentinite  (*)Wulfenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)11592513250
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)115925411547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)115925027770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2115925027198
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS6159251,159257,159258,159259,159260,1592622600
Copper  (*)CopperCu11592503846
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS115925024243
Kaolinite  (*)Clay KaoliniteAl2Si2O5(OH)411592635591
Mercury  (*)NoneHg1159257397
Orthoclase  (*)FeldsparK(AlSi3O8)11592492349
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22159249,15926161156
Valentinite  (*)NoneSb2O31159255369
Wulfenite  (*)ScheelitePbMoO411592621655



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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