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Locality Name:
Inskip, Stirling City District, Butte Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 245588
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-245588.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Inskip, Stirling City District, Butte Co., California, USA": 27
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 27

Number of Child Localities: 27
Child Localities:
Bessie Mine
Bluebird Mine
Cain Mine
Crystal Dawn No. 1 Mine
Edna M. Property (Buzzard)
Fitzpatrick Property
Garrison's Crater No. 2 Occurrence
Glen Prospect (Sourdough Prospect; W.W. I)
Gold Mountain Mine (Gold Hill Mine)
Golden Thread Property
Grouse Quartz Mine
Harpy No. 1 Occurrence
Inskip Mine
Last Chance Lode Mine
M-Jon No. 1 Mine
Mammoth Gold Mine
Martin Deposit
Owl Property
Rawhide Property
Remple Claim
Richie Claim
Roeper Property (Midas)
St. Lawrence Mine
Tenderfoot Placer Mine
Unnamed Au Occurrence (12)
Wild Yankee Mine
Zig Zag Quartz Mine

Latitude: 39°59'34"N
Longitude: 121°33'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.992777777778,-121.55083333333

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 Cr Fe H Mg O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ClayCopperNoneQuartzSpinelTalc

4 IMA Minerals at location:
Chromite  (*)Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)Talc  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O411518433902
Gold  (*)CopperAu18151836,151837,151838,151840,151841,151844,151845,151846,151848,151849,151851,151853,151854,151857,151858,151859,151861,15186230554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO217151836,151837,151838,151840,151841,151844,151845,151846,151848,151849,151851,151853,151854,151857,151858,151861,15186261156
Talc  (*)Clay TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)211518443337



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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