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Locality Name:
Yellow Mountain, High Grade District (Hoag District), Warner Mts, Modoc Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 234344
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-234344.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Yellow Mountain, High Grade District (Hoag District), Warner Mts, Modoc Co., California, USA": 54
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 54

Number of Child Localities: 54
Child Localities:
Alaska Bell Mine
Bad Bill Mine
Blue Bell Group
California Bell Mine (California Bell Claim; Lily Bell)
Cliff Mine
Comstock And Sea Lion Claims
Crown Point Mine
Dandy Claim
Discovery Claim (Hardtack Claim; Archerton Claim; Oregon Claim; Gold Wedge Claim; California Claim; Nine-Thirty Claim)
Dixie Queen Mine (Bonanza King; Golden T; Golden Knight; Big Four; Bonanza; Big Bonanza)
Emerald Claim
Eugene Mine
Fern Mine (Fern Fraction Claim; Fairport No. 1 Claim; Fairport No. 2 Claim; Fairport No. 3 Claim)
Fort Bidwell Consolidated Mines (Old Glory Mine; Missing Link Mine; Mountain View Claim; Sugar Pine Claim; Valley View Claim; Diamond Fraction Claim)
Friday Morning Mine (Josephine Claim)
Gold Peak And Klondike Mines
Gold Shore Lode (Moonlight Group; Moonlight Mines; Moonlight Claim; Paradise Claim; Sunbeam Claim; Daisey Claim; Inner Fraction Claim; New Year Claim)
Happy Thought Mine
High Grade Mine
Hildebrand Mine
Huckleberry & Huckleberry No. 1 Mine
Independence Claim
Jumbo Mine
Klondike Group (Alturus Claim; Klondike Claim; Alturus Fraction Claim; Evening Star Claim; Alturus No. 1 Claim; White Quartz Claim; Mountain Sheep No. 2 Claim)
Last Dollar Mine
Leland Claim
Lily Bell Mine (California Bell)
Lonaconing Claim
Mammoth Mine (Mammoth Claim)
Mineral Springs Claim
Mispah Mine (Mispah Claims)
Modoc Independence Mine (Modoc Independence Claims)
Monarch Mine (Monarch Claim)
Moonlight Mine (Sunset Mine)
Morning Star Mine (Morning Star Claim; Snowdrift Claim)
Mountain Summit And Quartzite Mine
Northern Star Mine (North Star Mine; Kohrnor Mine)
Peacemaker Mine (Peacemaker Claim; Morrel Mine [?])
Pink Rose Mine (Pink Rose Claim)
Printer Boy Mine
Red Horse Mine
Red Quartz Mine (Red Quartz Claim)
Shasta View Mine
Stonewall Mine
Sugar Pine Mine (Spearmint Claim)
Sunshine High Grade Gold Mines (High Grade Mine; Sunshine Claim; Yellow Jacket Claim; Gascow Fraction Claim)
Tamarack Mine
Topaz Mine
Two Jacks Mine
Uncle Joe Mine (Uncle Joe Claim)
Unnamed Au Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Hg Occurrence [2]
White Ribbon Mine
Yukon No. 1; No. 2; & No. 3 Mines

Latitude: 41°57'48"N
Longitude: 120°12'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.963333333333,-120.20083333333
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: Ag Au Cu Fe H Mg O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ChalcopyriteClayCopperCorundumNonePyriteQuartzTalc

7 IMA Minerals at location:
Chalcopyrite  (*)Gold  (*)Hematite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Silver  (*)Talc  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2116391927198
Gold  (*)CopperAu46163896,163897,163898,163899,163900,163902,163904,163905,163906,163908,163909,163910,163911,163912,163913,163915,163916,163918,163919,163920,163921,163922,163923,163924,163925,163926,163927,163928,163929,163930,163931,163932,163933,163934,163935,163936,163937,163938,163939,163940,163942,163943,163944,163945,163948,16394930554
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3116394014640
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23163904,163912,16391939462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO246163896,163897,163898,163899,163900,163902,163904,163905,163906,163908,163909,163910,163911,163912,163913,163915,163916,163918,163919,163920,163921,163922,163923,163924,163925,163926,163927,163928,163929,163930,163931,163932,163933,163934,163935,163936,163937,163938,163939,163940,163942,163943,163944,163945,163948,16394961156
Silver  (*)CopperAg11639325186
Talc  (*)Clay TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)211639123337


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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