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Locality Name:
McAtee Bar, Denny, New River District, Salmon Mts, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 242812
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-242812.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "McAtee Bar, Denny, New River District, Salmon Mts, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
McAtee Bar Occurrence
New River Mining And Development Company Placer
No Gold Placer Mine
Noble Brothers Placer Mine
Slake Shack Mine (Railroad Lease; Section II; Southern Pacific)
Stevens Placer Mine
Supplanter Mine
Thomas Placer Mine
Unnamed Au Placer (72)
Vista Lee Placer Mine

Latitude: 40°57'17"N
Longitude: 123°22'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.954722222222,-123.36694444444

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNoneQuartz

2 IMA Minerals at location:
Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Gold  (*)CopperAu7181611,181612,181613,181615,181616,181617,18161930554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2118161661156



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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