Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Lang Mine (Sterling Mine; Sterling Borax Mine; Tick Canyon Borax Mine), Tick Canyon Borate Deposit, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 23402
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-23402.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lang Mine (Sterling Mine; Sterling Borax Mine; Tick Canyon Borax Mine), Tick Canyon Borate Deposit, Tick Canyon, Lang, Los Angeles Co., California, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Lang Mine Dump Area

Latitude: 34°28'53"N
Longitude: 118°21'53"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.481388888889,-118.36472222222

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.

Amphibole	Analcime	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Gadolinite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Stibnite
Veatchite

Analcime ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Borax ()*	Celestine ()*	Colemanite ()*
Datolite ()*	Howlite ()*	Priceite ()*	Probertite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Realgar ()*	Stibnite ()*	Strontianite ()*	Tincalconite ()*
Tremolite ()*	Ulexite ()*	Veatchite ()*

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 As B C Ca Fe H Mg Na O S Sb Si Sr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As B C Ca Fe H Mg Na O S Sb Si Sr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Analcime Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Gadolinite None Pyrite Quartz Stibnite
Veatchite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of localities containing mineral
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	1627
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	9052
Borax ()*	None	Na₂B₄O₅(OH)₄·8H₂O	76
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	1252
Colemanite ()*	None	CaB₃O₄(OH)₃·H₂O	144
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	498
Howlite ()*	None	Ca₂SiB₅O₉(OH)₅	36
Priceite ()*	None	Ca₂B₅O₇(OH)₅·H₂O	33
Probertite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₇(OH)₄·3H₂O	29
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	61156
Realgar ()*	None	AsS	712
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	3418
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	589
Tincalconite ()*	None	Na₂B₄O₅(OH)₄·3H₂O	29
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	2562
Ulexite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₆(OH)₆·5H₂O	160
Veatchite ()*	Veatchite	Sr₂B₁₁O₁₆(OH)₅·H₂O	12

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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