Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Sheep Ranch, Mountain Ranch District, East Belt, Calaveras Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 100
Youngest recorded age at locality: 100

mindat Locality ID: 217190
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217190.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sheep Ranch, Mountain Ranch District, East Belt, Calaveras Co., California, USA": 39
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 39

Number of Child Localities: 39
Child Localities:
Admiral Dewey Mine
Alta No. 3 Mine (Altar No. 3 Mine)
Bon Ton Mine
Brassila Placer
Bullion Mine
Caruthers Mine
Chavanne Mine
Cooper And Hercules Occurrence
Dollar Et Al Claims
Finian Mine
First Chance Mine [1]
Florence Claim
Golden Bell Mine
Golden Eagle Occurrence
Golden Reef Mine
Golden West Mine (Talcose Claim; West Talcose Claim; Minetyseven Claim)
Grouch M. J. Martin And C. Shaw Occurrence
Hercules Occurrence
Hurricane Mine
Jenkins Mine
Kidoo Mine
Line Stone And Mohawk Placer
Lodi Mine
Lost Boy Mine
Mar John Prospect (Mar John Mine; Marjon; Old Calaveras Group; Calaveras; Enchantress; Oro Minto)
Moosehead Placer
Mutt Occurrence
Ohio Mine [2]
Pescia Prospect (Pescia Deposit)
Right Bower Mine (Western; Great Western)
Round Butte Placer
Sheep Ranch Mine (Washington Mine; Wallace And Ferguson Mine; Chavanne Mine; Pioche Mine; American Mine; Chavanne Claim; Wallace Claim; McNair Claim; Location Claim; Aspinwall Claim; Northstarv Claim; Salamanda Claim; Admiral Dewey Claim; Rosco Claim; Ala
Soapstone Mine (Soapstone Claim)
Sonoma Occurrence
Tandee Mine (H. H. Tandee Property)
Tom Smith Mine
Toon Mine
Unspecified Tourmaline Occurrence [1]
Zurcher Mine (Zurcher Prospect; Zurcher Property; Quarry No. 1)

Latitude: 38°11'53"N
Longitude: 120°28'4"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.198055555556,-120.46777777778

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.

Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Garnet	None	Perovskite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rocksalt
Skutterudite	Sphalerite	Vivianite

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 Co Cu Fe H Mn O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Copper Garnet None Perovskite Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Rocksalt
Skutterudite Sphalerite Vivianite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Erythrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Graphite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Skutterudite ()*
Spessartine ()*	Sphalerite ()*

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
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	100	100	1	152288	9052
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	100	100	1	152293	27198
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	100	100	1	152288	814
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	100	100	2	152288,152293	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	100	100	30	152264,152265,152266,152267,152268,152269,152270,152271,152272,152273,152274,152275,152276,152278,152279,152280,152282,152283,152285,152287,152288,152289,152290,152291,152293,152294,152295,152298,152299,152300	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	100	100	1	152293	2812
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	100	100	2	152288,152293	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	100	100	19	152264,152265,152266,152268,152273,152274,152275,152276,152278,152279,152282,152283,152287,152288,152291,152293,152298,152299,152300	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	100	100	1	152292	969
Skutterudite ()*	Skutterudite Perovskite	CoAs₃	100	100	1	152288	531
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	100	100	3	152292,152296,152302	1214
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	100	100	1	152288	21482

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
	Mo-00156	100	100								Yes		Molybdenite	Mo	16293	Calaveras Co., California, USA	Calaveras County	Brock (1972)	10.1130/0016-7606(1972)83[3391:GOGHSC]2.0.CO;2	GSAB83_3391

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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