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Locality Name:
Woodlands (Erwin Lake), Baldwin Lake District, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 217018
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217018.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Woodlands (Erwin Lake), Baldwin Lake District, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Big Bear Prospect
California Zeta Lode Prospect
Erwin Mine
Gold Hill Mine [2]
Green Canyon Quarry (Big Bear Dolomite Group; Magnesia Group; Sugarloaf Rare II Area No. 5186; Snowflake; Graphite No's 1-7 Claim Block)
Pasby-Strong Prospect
Princess Graphite Prospect
Red Canyon Mercury Prospect
Red Jacket Occurrence
St. Francis Graphite Prospect
Sugar Loaf Mountain Prospect
Thumbum Mine (Thum Bum Basin; Thum Bum Claim)
Unnamed Graphite Deposits [X]

Latitude: 34°13'10"N
Longitude: 116°47'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.219444444444,-116.78972222222

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: Au C Ca Hg Mg O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CalciteCopperNoneQuartz

6 IMA Minerals at location:
Cinnabar  (*)Dolomite  (*)Gold  (*)Graphite  (*)Magnesite  (*)
Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS11733772600
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)211733809895
Gold  (*)CopperAu117337230554
Graphite  (*)NoneC5173370,173374,173376,173379,1733822812
Magnesite  (*)CalciteMg(CO3)11733801487
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22173372,17337361156



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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