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Locality Name:
Sugar Hill, Callahan District (Scott River District), Klamath Mts, Siskiyou Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 167
Youngest recorded age at locality: 145

mindat Locality ID: 231786
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-231786.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sugar Hill, Callahan District (Scott River District), Klamath Mts, Siskiyou Co., California, USA": 19
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 19
Child Localities:
ABC Placer (Boye Placer)
Abers Mine
Beauty Placer Mine
Belle Josephine Placer (Slide Creek Placer)
Big Blue Claim (Big Blue Mine)
Bingham W Mine (Wilcat; Bingham; The Chrome)
Boulder Creek Placer (Fippen And Haydon Mine)
Bouveayx Mine
Fox Creek Occurrence
Hyde Mine
Keystone Asbestos Claims
Lilly May Mine
McMahon Placer Mine
Mount Bolivar Mine
Oro Grande Mining Company Mine (McKeen; Cummings; Shasta)
Richie Mine
Rycroft Placer
Sugar Hill Mine
Wurst Prospect

Latitude: 41°15'49"N
Longitude: 122°50'34"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.263611111111,-122.84277777778
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: Au C Cr Cu Fe H O S 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ChalcopyriteCopperMalachiteNoneNot in a structural groupSpinel

7 IMA Minerals at location:
Azurite  (*)Bornite  (*)Chalcocite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Chromite  (*)
Gold  (*)Malachite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Azurite  (*)Not in a structural groupCu3(CO3)2(OH)216714511785845509
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS41671452178584,1785955516
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S16714511785845707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2167145117859527198
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O41671452178585,1785983902
Gold  (*)CopperAu1671459178580,178582,178583,178586,178591,178592,178593,178596,17859730554
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)21671452178584,17859512537


Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:
Age IDLocality Notes
Kristen002448Nevadan Orogeny includes the Kalamath Mountains


1 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
Kristen002448167145Middle to Early Jurassic     Yes  4064Josephine Creek Placers, Josephine Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USANevadan Orogeny, Josephine Creek placersLanphere et al. (1968)10.1130/0016-7606(1968)79[1027:IAOTNO]2.0.CO;2GSAB79_1027 

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