Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Castaic, Sierra Pelona Mts (Sierra Pelona Range), Los Angeles Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 222409
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-222409.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Castaic, Sierra Pelona Mts (Sierra Pelona Range), Los Angeles Co., California, USA": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
All For One Placer Mine
Blue Cloud Chinchilla Dust Mine (Blue Cloud Deposit)
Blue Goose Mine
Castaic Quarry (Southern California Brick Company; Castaic Brick Company)
Castaic Valley Placers
Charlie Canyon Deposit (Charlie Canyon Gypsum Deposit; San Francisquito Canyon Deposit)
Dry Canyon Lease Placer Mine
Elizabeth Lake Canyon
Fish Canyon
Fox Placer Prospect (Fox No. 2)
Great West Prospect
Raggio's Franciscan & Silver Sheen Mine (Reggio S Franciscan And Silver Mine)
Rose Hill Placer Prospect
San Francisquito Canyon
Scorella Placers
Silver Mountain Prospect
Skipper Placer Prospect (Skipper Nos. 1 And 2)
Tuch & Dether Placer Mine

Latitude: 34°30'51"N
Longitude: 118°32'38"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.514166666667,-118.54388888889

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	Copper	Gypsum	None	Not in a structural group	Smectite-vermiculite	Zircon

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 Au C Ca H Na O S Si Th

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Copper Gypsum None Not in a structural group Smectite-vermiculite Zircon

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Beidellite ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Sillimanite ()*
Thorite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Beidellite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3Al₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	161818	85
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	161811,161813,161826,161830	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	2	161816,161818	2812
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	161812	6890
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	3	161816,161818,161825	1516
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1	161820	1006

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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