Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Horseshoe Bend Mountain, Coulterville, Coulterville District, Mother Lode Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 217436
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217436.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Horseshoe Bend Mountain, Coulterville, Coulterville District, Mother Lode Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Emmett Mine
Horse Shoe Group
Horseshoe Bend Hg Occurrence
Lookout Mine
Merced River II Mine (Merced River Quartz Mine)
Midas Mine
Owl Placer Mine
Porter Mine
Riverside Chrome Mine (Purcell-Griffin Mine)
Shelton Mine (Posley Mine; Lost Friend Mine; New Quartz Mine; Horseshoe Bend Mine)
Unnamed S-Hg Occurrence [1]
Willow Creek Mercury Deposit
Woods Prospect

Latitude: 37°40'21"N
Longitude: 120°12'15"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.6725,-120.20416666667

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.

Copper	None	Quartz	Spinel	Sulphur

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 Cr Fe Hg O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper None Quartz Spinel Sulphur

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Chromite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Gold ()*	Quartz ()*	Sulphur ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	163168	3902
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	3	163162,163170,163171	2600
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	163160,163165,163166,163167	30554
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	163160,163165,163171	61156
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	163170	2045

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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