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Locality Name:
Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt District (New York District), New York Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 216259
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-216259.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt District (New York District), New York Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 25

Number of Child Localities: 25
Child Localities:
Big Thunder Prospect (Germanite Property; Don's Claim)
Coyote Shaft
Darling Mine (Midnight Bronze; Midnight Mine; Midnight Claim)
Eagle Prospect [1]
Gold Bar Mine
Gold Bronze Mine
Gold/Red Prospect
Golden Treasure Shaft Prospect
Ivanpah Wollastonite Deposit
Mastadon Prospect
Meevint Claims (Ivanpah; Ivanpah Deposit; O'Connell Deposit)
Old Joe Prospect
Purple Bottle Prospect
Roman Occurrence
Signal No. 1 Prospect
Silver Don Property
Summit Prospect [1]
Unnamed Au Prospect [225] (Unnamed Mine Shaft)
Unnamed Au-Ba-Ag-Pb Prospect [1] (Unnamed Shaft Prospect)
Unnamed Au-Cu-Zn Prospect [1]
Unnamed Au-Zn Prospect [4]
Unnamed Graphite-Baryte-Cr Prospect [1] (Graphite Prospect)
Unnamed Zn-Au-Ag Prospect [1] (Unnamed Shaft Prospect)
Vanderbilt Mine (Gold Bar Mine; Brick Consolidated Mine; Brick Cons.; Webster Mine; Boomerang Mine)
West Mammoth Prospect

Latitude: 35°20'30"N
Longitude: 115°15'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.341666666667,-115.25777777778
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: As Au Ba C Fe O Pb S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenopyriteBaryteCopperMarcasiteNoneQuartzRocksalt

7 IMA Minerals at location:
Arsenopyrite  (*)Baryte  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Graphite  (*)
Marcasite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS11724209052
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)2172436,17243911547
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS117243824243
Gold  (*)CopperAu117241730554
Graphite  (*)NoneC11724362812
Marcasite  (*)MarcasiteFeS211724385674
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2117241761156


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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