Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Willow Valley, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 220897
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-220897.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Willow Valley, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA": 47
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 46

Number of Child Localities: 44
Child Localities:
Alonzo J. Doolittle Claim
Any Port In A Storm Mine
Bellefontaine Mine (Ebaugh Mine)
Blue Ledge Gold & Silver Quartz Mine (Blueledge Gold & Silver Qtz.; Blue Ledge)
Buckeye Quartz Mine (Buckeye Qtz.; Buckeye Mine; Buckeye Group)
Cold Spring Mine (Cold Springs; Cold Spring Blue Gravel Placer)
Consols Quartz Mine (Consols Qtz.)
Cyane Quartz Mine (Cyane Qtz)
Daybreak & Freedom Mine (Daybreak And Freedom)
Deadwood Quartz Mine (Deadwood Mine; Railroad Quartz Mine; Railroad Qtz.; Railroad Mine)
Emancipation Quartz Mine (Emancipation Qtz.; Emancipation)
Evergreen Quartz Mine (Evergreen Qtz.; Evergreen)
Federal Loan & Consols Mine (Federal Loan And Consols; Federal Loan Quartz Mine; Federal Loan Mine)
Fountain Head Mine (Fountain Head Gravel Mining Company Placer)
Frederic Mine
Goosenest Quartz Mine (Goosenest Qtz; Goosenest)
Great Western-Great Eastern Mine (Jewel Consolidated; Jewel Cons)
Hoge Mine (Great Northern Gold Mines Inc. Mine)
Hoge Mine (Great Northern Gold Mines Inc.)
Hussey Ledge Mine (Hussey)
Jeremiah Lode Mine
Joseph Warren Mine
Josephine Helen Mine
Labelle & McKinley Mine (Labelle And McKinley Mine)
Lecompton Quartz Mine (Le Compton Mine; Lecompton Qtz.)
Levant Placer
Lone Star Quartz Mine (Lone Star Qtz; Lone Star Consolidated)
Maple Mine
Montana Quartz Mine (Montana Qtz.; Montana-Willow Valley Group; Willow Valley Mine; Willow Valley Quartz Mine; Montana Claim; Willow Valley Claim)
Murchie Mine (Lone Star Mine; Big Blue Mine; Murchie And Starr; Coe Vein; Big Blue Vein; Independence Vein)
National Mine (Cyane)
Never Give Up Mine
New Constitution Mine (Garibaldi Isolta)
O. J. Wolcott Placer (Upper Wolcott; Lower Wolcott)
Omega Quartz Mine (Omega Mine; Omega Qtz.)
Oriental Placer
Phoenix Mine (Sneath & Clay)
Railroad Occurrence (Deadwood)
Ruby Lode Mine (Ruby)
Sharpe Quartz & Gravel Mining Company Mine (Sharpe Qtz & Gravel Mining Co.; Sharpe Quartz And Gravel Mng. Co.; Black Bear)
St. Louis Consolidated Mine (St. Louis Cons.; Neversweat; Never Sweat)
United Lode Mine
Yerba Buena Placer
Yosemite Placer (Yosemite Mine)

Latitude: 39°16'24"N
Longitude: 120°58'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.273333333333,-120.97333333333

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.

Chalcopyrite	Copper	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetradymite	Tetrahedrite

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: Au Bi Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si Te Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Copper None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetradymite Tetrahedrite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Tetradymite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	166060,166077	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	6	166057,166060,166065,166066,166071,166077	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	38	166049,166050,166051,166052,166053,166054,166055,166056,166057,166058,166059,166060,166061,166063,166064,166065,166066,166068,166069,166070,166072,166074,166075,166076,166077,166078,166079,166080,166081,166082,166083,166085,166087,166089,166090,166091,166092,166094	30554
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	6	166057,166060,166065,166066,166071,166077	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	37	166049,166050,166051,166052,166054,166055,166056,166057,166058,166059,166060,166063,166064,166065,166066,166067,166068,166069,166070,166071,166072,166074,166075,166076,166077,166078,166079,166080,166081,166082,166083,166085,166087,166089,166090,166091,166092	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	4	166057,166060,166071,166077	21482
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	1	166077	510
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	166076	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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