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Locality Name:
IXL Canyon (I.X.L. Canyon), Silver Mountain, Silver Mountain District, Alpine Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 219056
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-219056.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "IXL Canyon (I.X.L. Canyon), Silver Mountain, Silver Mountain District, Alpine Co., California, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Exchequer Mine (Buckeye Mine; Acacia Mine; Saugatuck Et Al)
I X L Mine (I.X.L. Mine; I.X.L. Deposit; Ophir Lode)
Lady Franklin Mine (Lady Franklin In Pennsylvania Mine)

Latitude: 38°37'35"N
Longitude: 119°46'50"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.626388888889,-119.78055555556

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 Ba Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteArsenoliteBaryteCopperEnargiteNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltStibnite
TetrahedriteWurtzite

13 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Arsenolite  (*)Baryte  (*)Enargite  (*)Galena  (*)
Gold  (*)Proustite  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Silver  (*)Stibnite  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S2150639,1506402793
Arsenolite  (*)ArsenoliteAs2O31150639231
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)115063911547
Enargite  (*)Enargite WurtziteCu3AsS41150639910
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS115064024243
Gold  (*)CopperAu2150639,15064130554
Proustite  (*)NoneAg3AsS32150639,150640733
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS32150639,1506401425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2115064039462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22150640,15064161156
Silver  (*)CopperAg11506395186
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S32150639,1506403418
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1311506395317



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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