Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Soledad Canyon, Acton, Acton District, San Gabriel Mts, Los Angeles Co., California, USA

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

mindat Locality ID: 223144
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-223144.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Soledad Canyon, Acton, Acton District, San Gabriel Mts, Los Angeles Co., California, USA": 7
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 7

Number of Child Localities: 7
Child Localities:
Free Cuba Mine
Lang 2 Deposit
Mooney & Williams Prospect
Nora-Evalyn Group (Nora-Evelyn Group)
Ohio Mine
Unnamed Ti Prospect (1)
White Feldspar Placer

Latitude: 34°26'16"N
Longitude: 118°16'9"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.437777777778,-118.26916666667

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.

Copper	Corundum	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Spinel	Titanite

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 Ca Cu Fe H O S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper Corundum Malachite None Not in a structural group Quartz Spinel Titanite

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Azurite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Quartz ()*	Titanite ()*

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
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1205	1167	1	161357	5509
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1205	1167	1	161357	5707
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1205	1167	1	161357	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1205	1167	1	161357	2970
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1205	1167	1	161358	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1205	1167	1	161358	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1205	1167	1	161357	12537
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1205	1167	1	161357	61156
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1205	1167	1	161357	4899

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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