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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:
Scott Bar, Klamath Mts, Siskiyou Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 167
Youngest recorded age at locality: 145

mindat Locality ID: 218666
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-218666.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Scott Bar, Klamath Mts, Siskiyou Co., California, USA": 36
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 36

Number of Child Localities: 36
Child Localities:
Bennett Mine (Martin Andrews Mine ?)
Blue Hill Placer
Boulder Point Placer
Brady Placer Mine
Brunt; Schorb And Company Mine
Chrome Cliff
Courts And Smith Mine
Crawfish Gulch Mine
Crawford Mine
Duncan Placer
Enterprise Placer
Farewest Placer Mine (Fare West Mine)
Gold King Placer Mine
Gold Lead Placer
Golden Rule And Scott Bar Placer
Hooper Hill Claim (Preckel Claim)
Hoover Mine
Jacobs And McCarthy Placer
Kennedy Placer Mine
Lighthill Prospect
Martin Mine
Mat-A-Pan Mine (Payne Mine)
McCauley Mine
McGuffey Placer (McGuffy And Falkenstein Placer)
Never Sweat Placer Mine
Paine Mine
Quartz Hill Mine
Robinson Mine
Rocky Point Placer Mine
Schuler Drift Placer Mine (Schuler Drift Mine)
Scott Bar Mine
Shorbs Brunt Company Placer Mine
Skunk Hill Mine
Unidentified Cr Deposit (14)
Unspecified As Occurrence
Wooliver Bar Mine

Latitude: 41°44'32"N
Longitude: 123°'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.742222222222,-123.00583333333

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 As Au Bi Cr Fe Mo O S Si Te 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperMolybdeniteNoneQuartzSpinelTetradymite

7 IMA Minerals at location:
Chromite  (*)Gold  (*)Hessite  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Realgar  (*)Tetradymite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O416714511798733902
Gold  (*)CopperAu16714518179841,179842,179843,179844,179847,179849,179850,179851,179852,179854,179857,179858,179863,179864,179866,179868,179869,17987130554
Hessite  (*)NoneAg2Te1671451179870804
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS216714511798665800
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2167145117984761156
Realgar  (*)NoneAsS1671451179874712
Tetradymite  (*)TetradymiteBi2Te2S1671451179866510



Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:
Age IDLocality Notes
Kristen002448Nevadan Orogeny includes the Kalamath Mountains


1 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
Kristen002448167145Middle to Early Jurassic     Yes  4064Josephine Creek Placers, Josephine Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USANevadan Orogeny, Josephine Creek placersLanphere et al. (1968)10.1130/0016-7606(1968)79[1027:IAOTNO]2.0.CO;2GSAB79_1027 


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