Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Sawyers Bar, Liberty District, Klamath Mts, Siskiyou Co., California, USA

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

mindat Locality ID: 231821
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-231821.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sawyers Bar, Liberty District, Klamath Mts, Siskiyou Co., California, USA": 51
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 51

Number of Child Localities: 51
Child Localities:
Adeline Laura Placer Mine
Anderson Placer
Anna Johnson & Suprise Mine
Ball Quartz Mine (A. J. Ball Mine)
Barry And Company Claim
Big Bar Placer Mine
Big Fish Mine
Black Bass Mine
Burns Mine
Curran Placer (Buckhorn Boys Claim)
Durch Placer
Ferndale Mine
Finley Mine
Flapjack Mine
Frazier Placer Mine
Gold Ball Mining Company Mine
Gold Hill Placer
Hibernia Mine (Wilson Mine [?]; Hibernian Mine; Ninety Mine)
Humpback Mine (Amback Mine; Portuguese Quartz Mine; Fagundaz Quartz Mine)
Ida May Mine
Jessups Gulch Placer (Jessops Gulch Placer)
Joubert Placer
Judge Placer
Keaton Mine (1)
Klein Placer (Casey Placer)
Liberty Mine
Metropolitan Mine
Monarch Mine
Mountain Laurel Mine (Stevens Group)
Myers And Smith Claim
Oriental Quartz Mine
Paymaster Mine
Peterson Mine
Rainbow Group (1)
Roberts Mine
Rollin School Deposit
S.T.S. Placer Mine
Security Mine (Security Group; Francis Ball; Lucky Strike; Norcal Mining Company; Ida May)
Snowflake And Little Gem Mine (Bear Den Mine)
Star Of The West Mine
Stevens And Hughes Mine
Townes Mine
Uncle Sam Consolidated Mine (Sheffield Mine)
Union Mine (Central Mine; Evening Star Mine)
Unnamed Cu Occurrence (6)
Unnamed Mn Occurrence (4)
White Gulch Mine
Wike Placer Mine
Wilson Brothers Mine (Wilson Mine)
Woodfill And Barry Placer (Gold Bank And John Frank Mines)
Zink Occurrence

Latitude: 41°16'32"N
Longitude: 123°7'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.275555555556,-123.11861111111

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	None	Quartz	Rhodonite

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 Mn O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper None Quartz Rhodonite

4 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodonite ()*

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
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	167	145	36	179400,179401,179402,179403,179405,179409,179410,179412,179413,179414,179416,179417,179418,179419,179420,179421,179422,179423,179424,179425,179426,179427,179428,179430,179431,179432,179433,179434,179436,179437,179438,179442,179443,179447,179448,179449	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	167	145	1	179430	2812
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	167	145	13	179402,179403,179417,179418,179423,179426,179427,179430,179434,179437,179438,179442,179448	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	167	145	1	179445	969

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Kristen002448	Nevadan Orogeny includes the Kalamath Mountains

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
	Kristen002448	167	145	Middle to Early Jurassic							Yes				4064	Josephine Creek Placers, Josephine Creek District, Josephine Co., Oregon, USA	Nevadan Orogeny, Josephine Creek placers	Lanphere et al. (1968)	10.1130/0016-7606(1968)79[1027:IAOTNO]2.0.CO;2	GSAB79_1027

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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