Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Weaverville District, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 220696
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-220696.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Weaverville District, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA": 129
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 124

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Bucktail
Douglas City
Lewiston
Rocky Point
Weaverville

Latitude: 40°43'19"N
Longitude: 122°54'18"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.721944444444,-122.905

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.

Arsenopyrite	Clay	Copper	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Rutile	Scheelite
Sphalerite	Talc

Arsenopyrite ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Graphite ()*	Iridium ()*	Laurite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Osmium ()*
Platinum ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutheniridosmine ()*	Scheelite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*

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: As Au C Ca Fe H Ir Mg Mo O Os Pb Pt Ru S Si Sn W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Clay Copper Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Rutile Scheelite
Sphalerite Talc

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	2	182156,182166	9052
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	3	182156,182207,182209	5171
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	1	182112	345
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	182135,182172	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	83	182085,182087,182088,182089,182091,182092,182095,182102,182103,182105,182106,182107,182108,182109,182110,182111,182113,182115,182116,182119,182120,182121,182123,182124,182125,182126,182129,182130,182131,182132,182133,182134,182135,182139,182140,182141,182143,182147,182148,182157,182159,182160,182161,182162,182163,182164,182165,182166,182169,182170,182171,182172,182175,182177,182178,182179,182180,182181,182182,182183,182184,182185,182186,182187,182188,182189,182190,182191,182192,182193,182194,182195,182196,182198,182199,182200,182201,182205,182208,182209,182210,182211,182212	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	182166	2812
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir	1	182122	162
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂	1	182122	226
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	2	182112,182128	5800
Osmium ()*	None	Os	1	182122	169
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	3	182106,182122,182206	485
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	182135	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	182135,182148,182161,182166,182172	61156
Rutheniridosmine ()*	None	(Ir,Os,Ru)	1	182122	47
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	182136	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	182135	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	182086	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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