Mineral Evolution Database
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Locality Name:
Engineer Springs, Otay Mts, San Diego Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 221444
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-221444.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Engineer Springs, Otay Mts, San Diego Co., California, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Bonanza Claim
Defiance And Newdeal Claims
Donohue Mine (Donohoe Mine; Gold Chief Claim; Comet Claim; Artery Consolidated Claims; Chief Of The Hills Claim; Golden Artery - 0060730811; W & J Claims; Mine Canyon; Sulfide Claim)
Doolittle Group
Dulzura Deposit (Duizura Deposit)
Imperial (Banco De Ore; Owl; Pasadena)
Johnston's Mine (Johnstons Mine)
Mayers Ranch (Scheckler; Meyers Ranch)
Unnamed Au Prospect (1)
Unnamed Mn Occurrence

Latitude: 32°35'45"N
Longitude: 116°47'11"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.595833333333,-116.78638888889

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: Mo S 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
MolybdeniteNone

1 IMA Minerals at location:
Molybdenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS211748655800



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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