Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cool, El Dorado Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 215190
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-215190.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cool, El Dorado Co., California, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Blue Marble Quarry
Cool-Cave Valley Quarry (Cowell-Cave Valley; Ideal Cement)
Crystal Mine [1]
Diamond Springs Quarry [2]
Flint Extension Placer
Gold Slide Placer
Great Cravia Placer (Great Crevis)
Indicator; S.W.H.; And Martha L. Claims
J. A. Mendes Placer
Lukens Mine (Lukens Gold Mine)
Mammoth Bar River Placer (Mamoth Bar River Placer)
Mooney Flat Placer
Murderers Bar Placer
Pony Mine
Robert B. Henderson Occurrence
Rocky Point Placer
S. L. Hunt Mine
Unnamed Au-Ag Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Placer PGE Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Stone Quarry [2] (Quarry 2)
West Cool-Cave Valley Deposit
Wilhelm And Last Chance Mine

Latitude: 38°53'54"N
Longitude: 121°1'19"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.898333333333,-121.02194444444

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.

Chalcopyrite	Copper	None	Quartz

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 Cu Fe Ir O Pt S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Copper None Quartz

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Gold ()*	Iridium ()*	Platinum ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	154123	27198
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	6	154123,154130,154131,154134,154137,154142	30554
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir	1	154139	162
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	1	154139	485
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	154123,154134,154137,154142	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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