Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mammoth Butte, Backbone District, West Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 390
Youngest recorded age at locality: 390

mindat Locality ID: 238101
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-238101.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mammoth Butte, Backbone District, West Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA": 26
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 25

Number of Child Localities: 25
Child Localities:
Akers Group
Backbone Mine
Baker Mine
Black & Brown Bear Mine
Carnegie Occurrence
Clipper And Snyder Group (Los Andes; California Progressive; Carnegie Group; Snyder)
Colma Group
Copper Crest Group
Dittmar Occurrence
Ellis Mine
Ferguson And Limbough Occurrence
Friday-Lowden Group
Gillispie Occurrence (Gellispie)
Golinsky Mine (Little Backbone Mine; Backbone Mine; Golinski Mine)
Great Verde Mine (Vulcan Mine)
Holcombs Consolidated
Loraine Mine (McKinley Consolidated Mine)
Mayflower Occurrence
Morton & Bliss Mine (Morton And Bliss Mine; Riley & Bliss)
Ohio Occurrence
Red Rock Occurrence
Shasta Kennett Occurrence
Shasta King Mine (Lost Desert Mine; Trinity Mine)
Skookum Consolidated Occurrence
Uncle Sam Mine (Vera Mines; Sierra Buttes Mining Company)

Latitude: 40°44'55"N
Longitude: 122°28'19"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.748611111111,-122.47194444444

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.

Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Covellite	Digenite	Mica	None
Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Stannite	Tetrahedrite	Wurtzite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*	Digenite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Greenockite ()*	Idaite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Silver ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

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 Al As Au Ba C Ca Cd Cu Fe H K O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Covellite Digenite Mica None
Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Stannite Tetrahedrite Wurtzite

20 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
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	390	390	1	176980	9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			1	176984	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	390	390	2	176972,176980	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	390	390	1	176980	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	390	390	3	176980,176986,176995	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	390	390	7	176972,176978,176980,176982,176984,176987,176995	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	390	390	3	176980,176987,176995	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	390	390	1	176980	4165
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	390	390	1	176980	1027
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	390	390	2	176980,176995	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	390	390	7	176974,176975,176977,176980,176982,176991,176997	30554
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS	390	390	1	176980	717
Idaite ()*	Stannite Sphalerite	Cu₃FeS₄	390	390	1	176980	142
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	390	390	3	176980,176986,176995	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	390	390	9	176972,176973,176978,176980,176984,176986,176987,176992,176995	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	390	390	6	176974,176980,176982,176984,176986,176997	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	390	390	1	176980	5186
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	390	390	2	176980,176995	21482
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	390	390	1	176980	1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	390	390	1	176980	5317

2 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
	vms-01035	390	390	Devonian										S	8166	Mammoth Mine (Mammoth Copper Company; Anderson Mine; Mayflower Mine; Sheridan Mine; Gillispie Mine), Copper Crest Group, Mammoth Butte, Backbone District, West Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA	Mammoth	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1034
	vms-01041	390	390	Devonian										S	92921	Shasta King Mine (Lost Desert Mine; Trinity Mine), Mammoth Butte, Backbone District, West Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA	Shasta King	Moiser et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009_1034

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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