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:
Coalinga, Fresno Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 212893
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-212893.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Coalinga, Fresno Co., California, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Alcalde Hills
Coalinga Mine [2]
Coalinga Oil Field
Herman Akers Claim
Oil City Area
Oilfields
San Joaquin Coal Mine
Unnamed Gypsum Occurrence [4]
Unnamed Gypsum Occurrence [5]

Latitude: 36°10'29"N
Longitude: 120°20'32"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.174722222222,-120.34222222222

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.

Artinite	Epsomite	Gypsum	Hydrotalcite	None	Sulphur

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 Ca H K Mg Mn O S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Artinite Epsomite Gypsum Hydrotalcite None Sulphur

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Artinite ()*	Desautelsite ()*	Epsomite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hydromagnesite ()*
Kalinite ()*	Sulphur ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Artinite ()*	Artinite	Mg₂(CO₃)(OH)₂·3H₂O	1	155611	75
Desautelsite ()*	Hydrotalcite	Mg₆Mn³⁺₂(CO₃)(OH)₁₆·4H₂O	1	155611	9
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	155612	484
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	8	155606,155607,155608,155609,155614,155615,155616,155617	6890
Hydromagnesite ()*	None	Mg₅(CO₃)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	155611	341
Kalinite ()*	None	KAl(SO₄)₂·11H₂O	1	155610	54
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	155610	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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