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:
Plaster City, Imperial Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 222226
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-222226.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Plaster City, Imperial Co., California, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Coyote Mountains Nickel Prospect (Coyote Mountains Nickel Deposit; Copper Contact Lode)
Shell Group Placer Mine
Superstition Mountain Feldspar Deposit (Superstition Mtn Feldspar Deposit; Graham And Jackson Claims; Graham-Jackson Deposit)
Yuha Basin

Latitude: 32°50'28"N
Longitude: 115°51'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.841111111111,-115.85444444444

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.

Clay	Epsomite	Feldspar	Gypsum	None	Quartz	Serpentine

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 Ca H Mg Na Ni O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Epsomite Feldspar Gypsum None Quartz Serpentine

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Albite ()*	Antigorite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Epsomite ()*	Gypsum ()*
Morenosite ()*	Népouite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	1	156870	8803
Antigorite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	156868	708
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	156868	951
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	156868	484
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	156871	6890
Morenosite ()*	Epsomite	Ni(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	156868	84
Népouite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Ni₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	1	156868	66
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	156871	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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