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Locality Name:
Johannesburg, Johannesburg District, Rand District (Randsburg District), Rand Mts, Kern Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 217848
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217848.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Johannesburg, Johannesburg District, Rand District (Randsburg District), Rand Mts, Kern Co., California, USA": 19
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 19
Child Localities:
Belmont Prospect
California Mine
Channel Placer
Golden Rule Claim
Hard Tack Prospect
Master Key Group
Mispah-Montana Claims (Montana Fraction Claim; Mispah Extension Claim)
Mizpah-Nevada Mine (Satan Mine)
Monarch-Rand Mine (Monarch Rand Group; Jersey Lily Group Of Claims)
Operator Consolidated Mine (Operator Consolicated Mine; Divide; Valverde Mine; Phoenix Mine; Operator Divide Mine; Styx Claims)
Pinmore Mine (Croesus Mine; Pinmore/Croesus/Penimore Mine; Croesus Mine)
Sunbeam Prospect (Lode Gold Claims [1985])
Treasure Hill Mine
Unnamed Au Placer Prospect [10]
Unnamed Au Prospect [13]
Unnamed Au-As-Ba Prospect [1]
W. H. No. 1 Mine (W H No. 1)
Wade H. No. 2 Claim
Windy Mine

Latitude: 35°22'28"N
Longitude: 117°38'35"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.374444444444,-117.64305555556
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: Ag Au C Ca Cu Fe O S Sb Si W 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CalciteCopperNonePyriteQuartzScheeliteTetrahedrite

8 IMA Minerals at location:
Calcite  (*)Gold  (*)Miargyrite  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)116017427770
Gold  (*)CopperAu5160167,160170,160171,160172,16018030554
Miargyrite  (*)NoneAgSbS22160163,160168300
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS311601631425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23160168,160170,16017439462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO23160168,160170,16017461156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)11601704894
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1311601635317


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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