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Locality Name:
Summit City, Meadow Lake District, Nevada Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 216971
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-216971.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Summit City, Meadow Lake District, Nevada Co., California, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Caledonia Mine (Montreal)
Confidence Mine
Excelsior Mine (Excelsior Group; Wotall; Lake/Blue Fox/C.B.C./Mammoth; Great Western Extension/California; Green Emigrant/Indian Boy/Pacific; New Hope/North Mammoth/Dam End; Great Eastern/Great Western; Confidence/Golden Eagle; Union No. 1 & 2 Claims; Of
Fraction Mine
Freeman Group (Cash-On-Dump)
Green Emigrant Mine
Oro Grande Mine (Oro Grande Group)
Otis Ledge
Pacific Mine [2]
Rusty Mine (Rusty Claim)
Sunny South Mine (Grey Eagle Mine; Dutch Flat)
Tola Group (Sunnyside And Bulah)
Turner Group
Unnamed Cu-Au-Zn-As Occurrence [1]

Latitude: 39°24'4"N
Longitude: 120°30'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.401111111111,-120.50638888889
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 As Au C Ca Co Cu Fe H Mo O S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenopyriteChalcopyriteClinozoisiteCobaltiteCopperEpidoteMalachiteMelanteriteMolybdeniteNone
PyriteQuartzSphalerite

15 IMA Minerals at location:
Arsenopyrite  (*)Bieberite  (*)Bornite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Cobaltite  (*)
Copper  (*)Epidote  (*)Ferrimolybdite  (*)Gold  (*)Malachite  (*)
Molybdenite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scorodite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS3165784,165786,1658009052
Bieberite  (*)MelanteriteCo(SO4)·7H2O116578650
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS42165784,1657935516
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS23165793,165798,16579927198
Cobaltite  (*)CobaltiteCoAsS2165786,165794966
Copper  (*)CopperCu11658003846
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)11658008173
Ferrimolybdite  (*)NoneFe3+2(Mo6+O4)3·7H2O1165783345
Gold  (*)CopperAu16165781,165782,165783,165784,165785,165786,165787,165788,165789,165790,165791,165792,165795,165796,165797,16580030554
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)22165793,16579812537
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS211657835800
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS25165784,165786,165793,165798,16579939462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO212165781,165782,165784,165788,165789,165790,165791,165792,165793,165795,165796,16579761156
Scorodite  (*)NoneFe3+(AsO4)·2H2O2165784,1657861153
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS2165786,16580021482


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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