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:
Burro Mountain, Los Burros District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), Monterey Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 220887
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-220887.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Burro Mountain, Los Burros District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), Monterey Co., California, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Burro Mountain Ultramafic Complex
Devils Canyon
Evans Ranch Prospect
Harris Chromite Prospect (Lilly Group)
Lilly Group Mine (Lilly Group Deposit)
Los Burros Creek
Old Murry Mine (Murray Mine; Old Murray No. 1 Mine; Dutro Mine; Dutra Mine)
Ross Ranch Prospect

Latitude: 35°49'50"N
Longitude: 121°18'2"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.830555555556,-121.30055555556

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.

Amphibole	Auricupride	Brucite	Calcite	Clay	None	Olivine	Pentlandite	Perovskite	Pyrite
Pyroxene	Serpentine	Spinel

Awaruite ()*	Brucite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chromite ()*	Chrysotile ()*
Cinnabar ()*	Enstatite ()*	Forsterite ()*	Heazlewoodite ()*	Hercynite ()*
Lizardite ()*	Magnesiochromite ()*	Nesquehonite ()*	Pentlandite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Rhodochrosite ()*	Spinel ()*	Tremolite ()*

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 C Ca Cr Fe H Hg Mg Mn Ni O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Auricupride Brucite Calcite Clay None Olivine Pentlandite Perovskite Pyrite
Pyroxene Serpentine Spinel

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Awaruite ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Ni₃Fe	1	164791	166
Brucite ()*	Brucite	Mg(OH)₂	1	164791	462
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	164799	27770
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	1	164795	3902
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	164791	951
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	164799	2600
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1	164791	944
Forsterite ()*	Olivine	Mg₂(SiO₄)	1	164791	1188
Heazlewoodite ()*	None	Ni₃S₂	1	164791	205
Hercynite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Al₂O₄	1	164791	407
Lizardite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	164791	359
Magnesiochromite ()*	Spinel	MgCr₂O₄	1	164797	311
Nesquehonite ()*	None	Mg(CO₃)·3H₂O	1	164798	80
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈	1	164791	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	164799	39462
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	164794	1711
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	1	164791	1934
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	164797	2562

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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