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Locality Name:
Hart, Hart District (Castle Mountain District), Castle Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 16.1
Youngest recorded age at locality: 14.4

mindat Locality ID: 217180
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217180.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hart, Hart District (Castle Mountain District), Castle Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Big Chief Prospect
C-1 Clay Mine (C-1 Hart Quarry; C-1 Hart Mine; Southern California Minerals Company; Coors; Milma Patented Claim)
C. And M. Deposit (C And M)
Castle Mountain Mine (Castle Mountain Project)
Cedar Top Perlite Mine
Erin Deposit
Germanite Prospect
Green Gold Mine [2]
Hart Consolidated Mine
Hart Peak No. 5 Prospect
Hats Prospect
Huntington Tile Clay Deposit (Castle Mountain Clay Deposits; Hart Mountain Clay Deposits)
Ivanpah Quarry
Mountain Top Mine
Oro Belle Mine (Castle Mountain Project)
P.S. Hart Mine (P. S. Hart Clay; Gladding Mc Bean Mine; Pacific Kaolin Mine; Standard Sanitary Mine)
Searchlight Prospect
Turtle Back Prospect
Unnamed Baryte Prospect [2] (Unnamed Shaft Prospect)
Valley View Mine [1] (Valley View; Lesley Ann; Jumbo Pit)
White Rose Clay Prospect
Whitehart No. 1 Prospect

Latitude: 35°18'11"N
Longitude: 115°5'32"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.303055555556,-115.09222222222

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.

Calcite	Clay	Copper	Kaolinite	Mica	None	Pyrite	Quartz

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 Au C Ca Fe H K O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Clay Copper Kaolinite Mica None Pyrite Quartz

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Gold ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	171095	27770
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	3	171095,171106,171111	30554
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	5	171093,171094,171103,171107,171113	5591
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	171095	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	171095	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	171095,171106,171111	61156

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-21899	16.1	14.4	15.25±0.85					21899						88560	Germanite Prospect, Hart, Hart District (Castle Mountain District), Castle Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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