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:
Preachers Peak, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 242237
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-242237.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Preachers Peak, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
B.V. Mine
Dorleska Mine
Unnamed Au Placer (56)

Latitude: 41°3'29"N
Longitude: 122°54'19"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.058055555556,-122.90527777778

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	Melonite	None	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: Ag Au Fe Ni O Pb S Sb Si Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper Melonite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Heazlewoodite ()*	Hessite ()*	Nagyágite ()*
Petzite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sylvanite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	181516	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	181515,181516	30554
Heazlewoodite ()*	None	Ni₃S₂	1	181516	205
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	1	181516	804
Nagyágite ()*	None	[Pb₃(Pb,Sb)₃S₆](Au,Te)₃	1	181516	67
Petzite ()*	None	Ag₃AuTe₂	1	181516	409
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	181516	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	181516	61156
Sylvanite ()*	Melonite	AgAuTe₄	1	181516	337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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