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Locality Name:
Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 22
Youngest recorded age at locality: 17

mindat Locality ID: 23313
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-23313.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 50
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 43

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Afton
Cady Peak
Hector
Sleeping Beauty
Soldier Mountain
Southern Front Of The Cady Mountains
Unnamed Clay Prospect [3]
Wide Valley Agate Occurrence

Latitude: 34°53'37"N
Longitude: 116°23'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.893611111111,-116.39972222222

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.

Amorphous	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Coronadite	Corundum	Diaspore	Erionite
Fluorite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Zircon

Anatase ()*	Baryte ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Colemanite ()*
Cryptomelane ()*	Erionite-Na ()*	Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Hectorite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hollandite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Manganite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Opal ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*
Strontianite ()*	Zircon ()*

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: Al Au B Ba C Ca F Fe H K Li Mg Mn Na O S Si Sr Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al H Na O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Copper Coronadite Corundum Diaspore Erionite
Fluorite None Not in a structural group Quartz Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Zircon

22 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
Anatase ()*	Not in a structural group	TiO₂			1	170928	2162
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			3	170911,170933,170934	11547
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			5	170899,170902,170919,170925,170930	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)			1	170944	1252
Colemanite ()*	None	CaB₃O₄(OH)₃·H₂O			1	170927	144
Cryptomelane ()*	Coronadite	K(Mn⁴⁺₇Mn³⁺)O₁₆			1	170919	599
Erionite-Na ()*	Erionite	Na₁₀[Si₂₆Al₁₀O₇₂]·30H₂O	22	17	0		13
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			4	170899,170900,170912,170913	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)			1	170902	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			3	170906,170907,170908	30554
Hectorite ()*	Clay	Na_0.3(Mg,Li)₃Si₄O₁₀(F,OH)₂·nH₂O			2	170925,170926	19
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃			2	170902,170919	14640
Hollandite ()*	Coronadite	Ba(Mn⁴⁺₆Mn³⁺₂)O₁₆			1	170899	243
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)			1	170901	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	170928	14899
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)			1	170919	770
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O			1	170902	1508
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O			2	170899,170902	2994
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂			2	170903,170919	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	22	17	9	170899,170902,170905,170906,170907,170908,170935,170941,170947	61156
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)			1	170938	589
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)			1	170928	5251

4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Sample Num	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Reference	Reference ID
NAVDAT-19635	22	18	20±2	19635	89230	Paymaster Mine [2], Sleeping Beauty, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-58120	20	17	18+2/-1	58120	89230	Paymaster Mine [2], Sleeping Beauty, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-19660	22	18	20±2	19660	89875	Unnamed Jasper Occurrence [3], Sleeping Beauty, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT
NAVDAT-58123	20	17	18+2/-1	58123	89875	Unnamed Jasper Occurrence [3], Sleeping Beauty, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA	NAVDAT	NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050134	Hector, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R050134

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