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Locality Name:
Low Divide, Low Divide District, Klamath Mts, Del Norte Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 163
Youngest recorded age at locality: 163

mindat Locality ID: 231103
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-231103.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Low Divide, Low Divide District, Klamath Mts, Del Norte Co., California, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Alta Mine (Alta California Mine; Alta Copper Claim)
Aurora (Cougar Hill)
Copper Creek Mine
Copper Hill Group
Express Occurrence
Gooch Claim
Occidental Mine (Occidental Group)
One Eyed Jack Nos. 1; 2 And 3 (Zoar)
Smith River Flat
Superior Mine (Mammoth Mine; Atlantic-Pacific Mine)
Theone Occurrence (Hance & Webb)
Union Mine (Salt Lake-California Mine)
Unnamed Au Occurrence (10)
Unnamed Au Placer [3] (Patrick Creek Placer)
Unnamed Mn Occurrence (2)
Zaar Occurrence (Oriental Occurrence)

Latitude: 41°54'35"N
Longitude: 124°1'31"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.909722222222,-124.02527777778

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.

Aragonite	Arsenic	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Cobaltite	Copper	Diaspore	Gypsum	Malachite	Melanterite
Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pentlandite	Pyrite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Starkeyite	Tetrahedrite	Tochilinite
Valleriite	Vivianite

Aragonite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chromite ()*	Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltpentlandite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*
Erythrite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Magnesiochromite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Maucherite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Pentlandite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Starkeyite ()*
Tenorite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tochilinite ()*	Troilite ()*	Valleriite ()*

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: Ag Al As Au Bi C Ca Co Cr Cu Fe H Mg Ni O S Sb Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenic Calcite Chalcopyrite Cobaltite Copper Diaspore Gypsum Malachite Melanterite
Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pentlandite Pyrite Sphalerite Spinel Starkeyite Tetrahedrite Tochilinite
Valleriite Vivianite

30 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)			2	153943,153954	3250
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi			1	153943	1966
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			2	153943,153954	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S			2	153943,153954	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			3	153943,153954,153958	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄			2	153948,153950	3902
Cobaltite ()*	Cobaltite	CoAsS			1	153943	966
Cobaltpentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	Co₉S₈			1	153943	82
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu			2	153943,153949	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O			2	153943,153949	2970
Erythrite ()*	Vivianite	Co₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O			1	153943	814
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	153943	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			2	153943,153958	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			2	153943,153954	6890
Magnesiochromite ()*	Spinel	MgCr₂O₄	163	163	1	153945	311
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			2	153943,153954	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂			1	153943	12537
Maucherite ()*	None	Ni₁₁As₈			1	153943	161
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O			2	153943,153954	915
Pentlandite ()*	Pentlandite	(Ni,Fe)₉S₈			2	153943,153954	1512
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			1	153949	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			2	153943,153954	9056
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag			1	153949	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			1	153943	21482
Starkeyite ()*	Starkeyite	Mg(SO₄)·4H₂O			2	153943,153954	79
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO			2	153943,153949	1101
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃			1	153949	5317
Tochilinite ()*	Tochilinite	6(Fe_0.9S)·5[(Mg,Fe)(OH)₂]			2	153943,153954	56
Troilite ()*	None	FeS			2	153943,153954	1044
Valleriite ()*	Valleriite	2[(Fe,Cu)S]·1.53[(Mg,Al)(OH)₂]			2	153943,153954	237

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
	podchrome-00236	163	163	Middle Jurassic (162-164 Ma)										Cr	25886	Copper Creek Mine, Low Divide, Low Divide District, Klamath Mts, Del Norte Co., California, USA	Copper Creek	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R070242	Union Mine (Salt Lake-California Mine), Low Divide, Low Divide District, Klamath Mts, Del Norte Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R070242

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