Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cinnabar Springs, Beaver Creek District, Klamath Mts, Siskiyou Co., California, USA

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

mindat Locality ID: 231962
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-231962.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cinnabar Springs, Beaver Creek District, Klamath Mts, Siskiyou Co., California, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Beaver Creek Occurrence (Hornbrook)
Cinnabar Company Mine (Beaver Creek)
Cowgill Mine (Ivanhoe Group; Mount Shasta Cinnabar Mine; Mount Shasta Mine)
Quigley Placer Mine
Unnamed Hg Mine (3)

Latitude: 41°57'39"N
Longitude: 122°53'25"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.960833333333,-122.89027777778

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	Sphalerite

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 Hg S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper None Sphalerite

3 IMA Minerals at location:

Cinnabar ()*	Gold ()*	Metacinnabar ()*

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
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	167	145	3	178287,178289,178291	2600
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	167	145	1	178290	30554
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	167	145	1	178289	255

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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