Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Piute Mts, Kern Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 152
Youngest recorded age at locality: 140

mindat Locality ID: 218055
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-218055.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Piute Mts, Kern Co., California, USA": 112
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 97

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Green Mountain District
Havilah-Jawbone Canyon Area
Piute
Piute Mountain District (Mount Sinai District)
Weldon District

Latitude: 35°28'43"N
Longitude: 118°18'46"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.478611111111,-118.31277777778

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.

Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Autunite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Copper	Epidote
Marcasite	Meta-autunite	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt
Scheelite	Smectite-vermiculite	Sphalerite	Stibnite	Wollastonite

Antimony ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Autunite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferberite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Marcasite ()*	Meta-autunite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Nontronite ()*	Pyrargyrite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stibiconite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Torbernite ()*	Uranocircite-II ()*
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: Ag Al As Au Ba Bi C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O P Pb S Sb Si U W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Arsenopyrite Autunite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Copper Epidote
Marcasite Meta-autunite Mica Molybdenite None Pyrite Pyrochlore Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt
Scheelite Smectite-vermiculite Sphalerite Stibnite Wollastonite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Antimony ()*	Arsenic	Sb	152	140	1	159990	363
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	152	140	1	159950	9052
Autunite ()*	Autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10-12H₂O	152	140	2	160049,160052	1272
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	152	140	1	159988	1966
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	152	140	6	159971,160035,160038,160042,160046,160059	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	152	140	3	160044,160045,160051	27198
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	152	140	2	159974,160060	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	152	140	12	159974,159978,160035,160038,160042,160043,160044,160045,160046,160050,160051,160059	8173
Ferberite ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺(WO₄)	152	140	1	160053	551
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	152	140	1	160031	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	152	140	42	159952,159954,159956,159957,159961,159962,159964,159966,159970,159972,159975,159976,159982,159983,159986,159992,159994,159996,159997,159998,159999,160000,160001,160002,160004,160005,160006,160008,160009,160010,160013,160016,160017,160021,160022,160023,160025,160028,160029,160030,160031,160055	30554
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	152	140	4	159979,159983,160001,160022	5674
Meta-autunite ()*	Meta-autunite	Ca(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·6H₂O	152	140	1	160049	388
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	152	140	1	159974	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	152	140	1	160060	17380
Nontronite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Na_0.3Fe³⁺₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	152	140	1	160061	471
Pyrargyrite ()*	None	Ag₃SbS₃	152	140	1	159961	1425
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	152	140	4	159956,159974,159983,160022	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	152	140	13	159954,159971,159974,159978,159983,160017,160022,160031,160035,160042,160045,160059,160060	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	152	140	22	159959,159960,159974,159978,159983,160017,160022,160026,160035,160037,160038,160039,160042,160043,160044,160045,160046,160050,160051,160053,160059,160061	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	152	140	1	159956	21482
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	152	140	1	159990	446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	152	140	2	159956,160031	3418
Torbernite ()*	None	Cu(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·12H₂O	152	140	2	160049,160052	1059
Uranocircite-II ()*	None	Ba(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₂·10H₂O	152	140	1	160049	89
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	152	140	1	159971	1247

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_424	Quartz monzonite of the Paiute Monument pluton, dirt road about 1.5 km NE of Whiteside mine See Table A1.

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
	Michelle_424	152	140	<152	U-Pb	Preferred intrusive age		zircon	29			Zircon			218055	Piute Mts, Kern Co., California, USA	Paiute Monument	Chen and Moore (1982)	10.1029/JB087iB06p04761	AJS299_93	See p. 4768, Table 2. Age group J (Jurassic 140-195 ma).

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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