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:
Deadwood Area, French Gulch District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 239023
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-239023.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Deadwood Area, French Gulch District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 14

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Brunswick Mine (Brunswick Vein; Miners' Group)
Bulwer And Virginia Mine
Centennial Mine
Colorado Mine
Combination Mine
Greenhouse Mine
Honeycomb And Shea Mine
Niagara Summit Mine (Niagara Group; Black Tom; Montezuma; Niagara Summit Mining Company; Scorpion)
Niagara Vein (Niagara Group; Montezuma Mine; Black Tom Mine; Scorpion Mine; Scorpion Vein; Niagara Summit Mining Company)
Summit Gulch
Sybil Mine (Shasta Hills Mine; Anaconda Mine; Accident Mine)
The Wertz Prospect
Tom Green Mine (Tom Green Vein; Sysonby; Green; Honey Bee; Twenty Grand)
Wertz Mine (Ike Wertz Prospect)

Latitude: 40°42'55"N
Longitude: 122°41'33"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.715277777778,-122.6925

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	Calcite	Copper	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite

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: As Au C Ca Fe O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Copper None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	176714	9052
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	176707,176714	27770
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	176711,176713,176714	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	11	176703,176704,176705,176706,176707,176709,176711,176713,176714,176716,176717	30554
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	176703,176713,176714	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	176704,176705,176707,176709,176713,176714,176716,176717	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	3	176711,176713,176714	21482

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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