Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Durham Mine (Pacific Tungsten Co.), Darwin, Darwin District, Darwin Hills, Inyo Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 174
Youngest recorded age at locality: 174

mindat Locality ID: 240515
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-240515.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Durham Mine (Pacific Tungsten Co.), Darwin, Darwin District, Darwin Hills, Inyo Co., California, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 36°16'20"N
Longitude: 117°34'20"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.272222222222,-117.57222222222

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.

Aragonite	Arsenic	Baryte	Bismutite	Fluorite	Garnet	None	Pyrite	Rocksalt	Scheelite
Stibnite

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: Bi C Ca F Fe O Pb S Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Bi C Ca F Fe O Pb S Si W

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Arsenic Baryte Bismutite Fluorite Garnet None Pyrite Rocksalt Scheelite
Stibnite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Andradite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Bismuth ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bismutite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Pyrite ()*	Scheelite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	174	174	1534
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	174	174	2734
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi	174	174	1966
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	174	174	1935
Bismutite ()*	Bismutite	Bi₂O₂(CO₃)	174	174	716
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	174	174	4979
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	174	174	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	174	174	24243
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	174	174	39462
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	174	174	4894

1 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
	sedznpb-00455	174	174	174							Yes				23498	Darwin District, Darwin Hills, Inyo Co., California, USA	Darwin	Singer et al. (2009)		USGSOFR2009-1252

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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