Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Hammil Valley, Mono Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 5.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1.8

mindat Locality ID: 217151
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217151.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hammil Valley, Mono Co., California, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Hammil

Latitude: 37°40'1"N
Longitude: 118°26'45"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.666944444444,-118.44583333333

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.

Marcasite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite

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: Fe Hg Mo O Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Marcasite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Cinnabar ()*	Galena ()*	Marcasite ()*	Mercury ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Wulfenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	5.3	1.8	1	164242	2600
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5.3	1.8	1	164244	24243
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	5.3	1.8	1	164244	5674
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	5.3	1.8	1	164242	397
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5.3	1.8	1	164244	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5.3	1.8	1	164244	61156
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	5.3	1.8	1	164243	1655

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	NAVDAT-18353	5.3	1.8	3.55±1.75					18353						217151	Hammil Valley, Mono Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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