Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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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:
Dinkey Creek, Fresno Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 113.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 92.7

mindat Locality ID: 220489
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-220489.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dinkey Creek, Fresno Co., California, USA": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Dinkey Creek Mine
Dinkey Lakes Pegmatites (1st & 2nd Dinkey Lakes)
Forest Service Providence Quarry
Garnet Mine (Defense Group; Mud Lake)
Homer's Tungsten And Little Uncle Claim (Homers Tungsten Quartz Claim)
Joe Sadler Occurrence [1945]
Last Hope Occurrence
Lobo Mine
Richter Placer Mine
Strawberry Nos. 1-3 Prospect
U.S. Tungsten Company Mine
We Hope Claims

Latitude: 37°3'31"N
Longitude: 119°7'48"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.058611111111,-119.13

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.

Clay	Copper	Corundum	Feldspar	Mica	None	Quartz	Scheelite

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 Au Ca Fe H K Mo Na O Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Copper Corundum Feldspar Mica None Quartz Scheelite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Albite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Microcline ()*	Muscovite ()*
Powellite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*

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
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)			1	155750	8803
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			1	155757	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			1	155750	14640
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)			1	155750	4924
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂			1	155750	17380
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)			1	155759	494
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			2	155750,155759	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	113.3	92.7	4	155749,155752,155753,155760	4894

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
	NAVDAT-32420	113.3	92.7	103±10.3					32420						76597	We Hope Claims, Dinkey Creek, Fresno Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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