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Locality Name:
Canyon City, Canyon Creek District, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 212408
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-212408.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Canyon City, Canyon Creek District, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Andy Placer
Anna Bell Mine (Anna Bell Cinnabar Mine)
Bed Rock Tunnel (Heimburger)
Bigelow Mine
Burger Occurrence
Canyon City Meteorite
Clipper Claim
Crazy Jim Placer
Fisher Gulch And Bonanza Claims Mine
Forty Dollar Gulch Placer Mine
Gold Dollar Nos. 1-5 Claims
Guthrie Placer Mine
Heimburger Placer Mine (Bed Rock Tunnel)
La Grange Hydraulic Mine
Maple Placer Mine
Meckel-Fields Mine (General Lee Mine; Klondike Mine)
Red Flat Placer Mine (Dannenbrink Mine)
Trinity River Placer
Uphill Minco Occurrence (Hornet Bar)
Wolff Brothers Placer

Latitude: 40°48'58"N
Longitude: 123°3'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.816111111111,-123.05444444444

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: Au Fe Hg Ni O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperIronNoneQuartz

6 IMA Minerals at location:
Cinnabar  (*)Gold  (*)Iron  (*)Quartz  (*)Taenite  (*)
Troilite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS11809982600
Gold  (*)CopperAu9180999,181000,181005,181006,181008,181009,181010,181011,18101330554
Iron  (*)IronFe11810021089
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22181000,18100561156
Taenite  (*)None(Ni,Fe)1181002703
Troilite  (*)NoneFeS11810021044



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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