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:
Sugarloaf (1), West Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 238958
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-238958.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sugarloaf (1), West Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Black Diamond Mine (Grandview Mine)
Florida Occurrence
Golden Chariot Mine (Gold Chariot Mine)
Horstman Mine (We Hope Mine)
JCL Mine (J.C.L. Mine)
Lizzie Longley Mine
Lucky Seven Placer Mine
Miners Dream Occurrence
Oro Grande Mine
Rattlesnake Mine (Spider Mine; Scorpion Mine)
Saddle Pocket Occurrence
Sugarloaf Occurrence
West Point Occurrence

Latitude: 40°33'30"N
Longitude: 122°27'35"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.558333333333,-122.45972222222

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	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt

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 C Cu Fe H O Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper Malachite None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Azurite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Malachite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	177090	5509
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	177089	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	6	177086,177088,177089,177091,177092,177095	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	177090	12537
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	177089	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	177089,177091,177095	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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