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:
Copper Hill, South Fork District, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 240699
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-240699.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Copper Hill, South Fork District, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA": 19
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Arrowhead And Black Susan Claims
Blackie Occurrence
Claim 23 Prospect
Eureka Occurrence
Four Point Claim
Gool No. 2 And No. 3 Claims
Hoelling Claims
Jaybird Claim
Last Chance Claim (2)
Little Klondyke Placer Mine
Lone Pine Occurrence
Murphy Mine (Copper King Mine; Copper Queen Mine; Copper Jack Mine; Copper Ace Mine; Copper Ten Mine)
Sulphur Springs Prospect (Big Flat P M C; Pine Flat P M C)
Unnamed Au Occurrence (31)
Vine Oak Occurrence
Western Chrome Nos. 1; 3; 4
Whiteman Prospect

Latitude: 40°25'54"N
Longitude: 123°19'8"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.431666666667,-123.31888888889

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	Rhodonite	Spinel

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 Cr Cu Fe H Mn O 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 Rhodonite Spinel

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Chromite ()*	Copper ()*	Cuprite ()*
Gold ()*	Malachite ()*	Rhodonite ()*

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	181788	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	181788	5516
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	4	181776,181778,181783,181792	3902
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	181788	3846
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	181788	2970
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	181786	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	181788	12537
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	181793	969

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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