Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Little Cahuilla Mountain, Cahuilla District, Riverside Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 212838
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-212838.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Little Cahuilla Mountain, Cahuilla District, Riverside Co., California, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Andalusite Pegmatite (group I; Older Pegmatites)
Audrey Lynn Mine (Audrey Lynne Mine; Jumping Joe Claims)
Fano Mine (Big Pink Claim; Fano-Simmons Mine; Little Blue Claim; MS 4800; Simmons Mine)
Granitic Pegmatite Occurrence (group II; Younger Pegmatites)
Juan Diego Mine No. 1 (Juan Diego No. 1 Deposit; Rainbow Mine; Rainbow Prospects)
Juan Diego Mine No. 2 (Cahuilla Chief Mine; Juan Diego No. 2 Deposit)
Schindler Mine (Beryl Crystal Claims; Schindler Claims; Silica Beryl Claims; Silica Beryl Group)
Sly Rick Prospect (Green Centipede Claim)

Latitude: 33°36'49"N
Longitude: 116°47'57"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.613611111111,-116.79916666667

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.

Andalusite	Apatite	Axinite	Beryl	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Corundum	Epidote
Feldspar	Garnet	Kaolinite	Mica	Monazite	None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile	Tourmaline
Zircon

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Amblygonite ()*	Andalusite ()*	Axinite-(Fe) ()*
Beryl ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Columbite-(Mn) ()*	Cookeite ()*	Corundum ()*
Elbaite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Foitite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Microcline ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Quartz ()*	Schorl ()*	Spessartine ()*	Spodumene ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*
Zircon ()*

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 B Be Ca Ce F Fe H K Li Mn Na Nb O P Si Sn Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Apatite Axinite Beryl Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Corundum Epidote
Feldspar Garnet Kaolinite Mica Monazite None Pyroxene Quartz Rutile Tourmaline
Zircon

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	5	168865,168866,168867,168868,168871	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	3	168865,168868,168871	2353
Amblygonite ()*	None	LiAl(PO₄)F	1	168866	244
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	168864	1310
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Fe²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	1	168865	260
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	5	168865,168866,168867,168868,168870	4286
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	2	168865,168866	5171
Columbite-(Mn) ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺Nb₂O₆	1	168866	289
Cookeite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Al,Li)₃Al₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₈	1	168871	181
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	168864	1797
Elbaite ()*	Tourmaline	Na(Al_1.5Li_1.5)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	3	168866,168868,168870	520
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	168868	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	168865	2740
Foitite ()*	Tourmaline	(Fe²⁺₂Al)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	168870	75
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	168865	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	168871	5591
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	6	168864,168865,168866,168867,168868,168871	4924
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	168865	945
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	6	168864,168865,168866,168867,168868,168871	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	3	168865,168868,168871	2349
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	168864,168865,168866,168867,168868,168870,168871	61156
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	6	168864,168865,168866,168867,168868,168871	2705
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	168865	1214
Spodumene ()*	Pyroxene	LiAlSi₂O₆	1	168866	688
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	168865	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	168868	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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