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Locality Name:
Littlerock, San Gabriel Mts, Los Angeles Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 1205
Youngest recorded age at locality: 1167

mindat Locality ID: 222438
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-222438.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Littlerock, San Gabriel Mts, Los Angeles Co., California, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Black Cat Mine
Boulder Claim (Lucerne Valley Prospect; Jesse Collins Limestone; Hill 3574)
Breslin Greenstone Quarry
Crystalaire Prospect
Granite Mountain
Littlerock Meteorite
Nickel Greenstone Quarry
Palm Mine (Palm Development Company Prospect)

Latitude: 34°28'31"N
Longitude: 118°1'58"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.475277777778,-118.03277777778

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	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyroxene

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: C Cu Fe H Mg O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyroxene

4 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Enstatite ()*	Malachite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1205	1167	1	161484	27198
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1205	1167	1	161484	2970
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	1205	1167	1	161482	944
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1205	1167	1	161484	12537

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Bradley_2012_125	1205	1167	1186±19	U/Pb			zircon			Yes	Zircon			28941	San Gabriel Mts, Los Angeles Co., California, USA	Mendenhall Peak	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	10.3749/canmin.52.2.183	CM52_183

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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