Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
California Hot Springs, Tulare Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 217818
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217818.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "California Hot Springs, Tulare Co., California, USA": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 6
Child Localities:
Big Four No. 1 Claim
Pendell Tungsten Property (Pendell Property)
Silver Crown Group
Tobias Peak
Tyler Creek Mine (Western Exploration; National Tungsten; Verne Tyler; Bull Point)
Wingrove Occurrence

Latitude: 35°53'17"N
Longitude: 118°38'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.888055555556,-118.64166666667

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.

Aragonite	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyroxene
Quartz	Scheelite	Wollastonite

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 C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo O P Pb S Si U W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Mica Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyroxene
Quartz Scheelite Wollastonite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Laumontite ()*
Molybdenite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Smithsonite ()*
Torbernite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	182286	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	182281	4979
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	182286	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	182286	8173
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	1	182286	1271
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	182279,182287	5800
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	182286	2273
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	182283,182284,182285,182286,182287	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	182286	4894
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	182281	2473
Torbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O	1	182279	1059
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	182286	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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