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Locality Name:
Corona, Santa Ana Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 214984
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-214984.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Corona, Santa Ana Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA": 41
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 41

Number of Child Localities: 41
Child Localities:
Barth Deposit (Prizer)
Conduit Clay Placer
Coplin Pit (Chplin Pit)
Corona Lead-Zinc Mine
Corona Rock Company Pit
Dominguez Lease Pit
El Cerrito Ranch Mine
Elki Claims
Emsco Pit
Findley Feldspar Placer
Fire Clay Group
Freeman Clay Prospect
Grapevine Clay Mine
Hazador Canyon Gypsum Deposit (Hagador Canyon Gypsum Deposit)
Jackson & Havens Deposit
Jordan Tile Manufacturing Company Mine
Kroonen Clay Deposit (Keno Group; Dutch Placer)
Leo Lorenzo Placer (Kroonen Clay Deposit)
Lord Mine
Main Street Canyon Gypsum Deposit (Gypsum Canyon Deposit)
McClintock Pit
McKnight Mine (Pacific Clay Products Company; La Brick Mine)
Middlesworth Clay Deposit (Middleworth; Brown Star Claims)
Mountain Group Deposit (Crowell Mine; Crowell Deposit; Mabey Canyon Deposit; Mountain Antimony Mine)
National Paint & Color Company Mine (Paint Mine)
Nonhof Deposit
Omei Claim (White Gypsum Group)
Pacific Clay Products Company Mine & Plant
Sierra Grande Quarries (Sierra Grande Quarry)
Silberberger Quarry (Silberger Quarry)
Sky Ranch Clay Mine-East Pit (Wardlow Shale Mine; Sky Ranch Clay Company Deposits)
Smith Sand Pit (Jones Deposit; Sand Deposit; Smith Silica Pit; Hoag Ranch Deposit)
Susie Placer (McVicar Pit)
Switzer Deposit
Tecumseh Group
Thomas Clay Deposit - West Pit
Thomas Shale Quarry
Unnamed Clay Pit [7]
Unnamed Clay Prospect [3]
Unnamed Dumortierite Occurrence [3]
White Gypsum Group (Big Chief; White Gypsum; Freeman-Nonhof; Ware)

Latitude: 33°50'45"N
Longitude: 117°35'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.845833333333,-117.5975
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 B Ca Fe H O Pb S Sb Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
DumortieriteGypsumNonePyriteRocksaltSphaleriteStibnite

6 IMA Minerals at location:
Dumortierite  (*)Galena  (*)Gypsum  (*)Pyrite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Stibnite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Dumortierite  (*)DumortieriteAlAl6BSi3O181169909231
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS116987324243
Gypsum  (*)GypsumCa(SO4)·2H2O7169870,169876,169877,169883,169889,169896,1699046890
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2116987339462
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS116987321482
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S311698933418


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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