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Locality Name:
Garlock, El Paso Mountains District, El Paso Mts, Kern Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 216084
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-216084.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Garlock, El Paso Mountains District, El Paso Mts, Kern Co., California, USA": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 25

Number of Child Localities: 25
Child Localities:
College Girl Group (Confidence)
Copper Chief Group (Zundra; Zumdra; Gold Badger)
Copperola Prospect (Zuma Claim; Zuna; Copperola No. 1 & No. 2 Claims)
Fluorite Claims (Last Chance Canyon Deposit)
Galena Group (Decker)
Gateway Claims (Lutz Claims)
Gladys Prospect
Gold Peak Claims
Golden Badger Mine
Golden Eaglet And Queen Claims
Golden Thorn Prospect
Golden View Claims
Green Dragon Claims
J. D. Voss Occurrence
Run Around Claims
Silver King Mine
Sun Group Of Mines
Unnamed Chloritoid Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Pb Occurrence [2]
Unnamed Zeolite Occurrence [3]
Unspecified Mo Occurrence [2]
Voss Prospect (Austin Group)
White Castle Prospect (White Castle Williams)
Williams Deposit
Windy Whiskers Claims

Latitude: 35°25'18"N
Longitude: 117°49'56"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.421666666667,-117.83222222222
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: Ag Al Au C Ca Cu F Fe H Mo O Pb S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteChalcopyriteChloritoidCopperFluoriteMalachiteNoneQuartzRocksaltScheelite
Sphalerite

13 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Bornite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chloritoid  (*)Fluorite  (*)
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Malachite  (*)Powellite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Silver  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Wulfenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S11594102793
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS411593965516
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS23159396,159397,15940727198
Chloritoid  (*)ChloritoidFe2+Al2O(SiO4)(OH)21159412376
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF211593989617
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS115939524243
Gold  (*)CopperAu3159395,159411,15941630554
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2115939712537
Powellite  (*)ScheeliteCa(MoO4)1159415494
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO28159395,159396,159397,159399,159402,159404,159406,15940761156
Silver  (*)CopperAg11594105186
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS115939521482
Wulfenite  (*)ScheelitePbMoO411594131655


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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