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:
Santiago Canyon, Santa Ana Mts, Orange Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 212434
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-212434.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Santiago Canyon, Santa Ana Mts, Orange Co., California, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Alma Mine
Carbonate Hill
Dunlap Mine
Placer Gold Occurrence
Santiago Mine

Latitude: 33°42'13"N
Longitude: 117°36'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.703611111111,-117.60194444444

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.

Aragonite	Copper	Melanterite	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	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: Au C Fe H O Pb S Sb Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Copper Melanterite None Pyrite Rocksalt Sphalerite Stibnite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Cerussite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Melanterite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	166582	4979
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	166581,166583	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	166584	30554
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	166585	915
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	166583	39462
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	166583	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	166583	3418

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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