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Locality Name:
Ridgecrest (Crumville), Rademacher District, Kern Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 220961
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-220961.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ridgecrest (Crumville), Rademacher District, Kern Co., California, USA": 27
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 27

Number of Child Localities: 27
Child Localities:
Bellflower Mine (Huntington)
Code Siding Deposit (Wollastonite No. 1; Rademacher)
Eldorado Prospect
Gold Bug Mine
Gold Pass Mine
Haunita Prospect (Crown Consolidated [?])
Hoodoo Prospect
Horoscope Claim
Huntington Mine
Iriquois Prospect (Irquois Prospect)
Jerry Mine
Lehigh Valley Group
Little Audrey Prospect
Lost Keys Mine
Lucky Boy Prospect [3]
Northern View Prospect
Prize Prospect
Rademacher Mine (Radamacher Mine; Barron Mine)
Red Wing Mine
Reward Prospect
Silver Bar Mining And Reduction Company Prospect
Stardust No. 1 Prospect
Stellar Mine (Stellar Group Of Claims)
Unnamed Wollastonite Occurrence [1]
Vera Queen Group (Indian Wells Valley)
White Star Prospect (White Star Group Of Claims)
Yellow Treasure Mine

Latitude: 35°33'5"N
Longitude: 117°40'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.551388888889,-117.6725
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: Au Ca Cu Fe Mg O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ChalcopyriteCopperCorundumNonePyritePyroxeneQuartzWollastonite

8 IMA Minerals at location:
Bornite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Diopside  (*)Gold  (*)Hematite  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Wollastonite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS411601185516
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS22160109,16011827198
Diopside  (*)PyroxeneCaMgSi2O611600934135
Gold  (*)CopperAu4160103,160114,160117,16011830554
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3116011814640
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23160103,160105,16011039462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO24160103,160105,160110,16011461156
Wollastonite  (*)WollastoniteCaSiO32160093,1601151247


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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