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:
Masonic Mountain, Masonic District, Bodie Hills, Mono Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 247306
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-247306.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Masonic Mountain, Masonic District, Bodie Hills, Mono Co., California, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Brownite Group (Brownie)
Chemung Mine (Masonic Mines Association Mine)
Faudre And Welsh Group
Success Mine
Unnamed Hg Claim [2] (Section 9 Claim Location)

Latitude: 38°19'45"N
Longitude: 119°7'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.329166666667,-119.13305555556

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.

Andalusite	Baryte	Columbite	Copper	Mixite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Sulphur

Alunite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bodieite ()*	Chalcomenite ()*	Gold ()*
Hübnerite ()*	Juabite ()*	Mixite ()*	Olivenite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sulphur ()*	Teineite ()*	Tellurite ()*	Xocomecatlite ()*

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: Al As Au Ba Bi Ca Cu H K Mn O S Se Si Te W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Baryte Columbite Copper Mixite None Not in a structural group Quartz Sulphur

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	164178	966
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	164178	11547
Bodieite ()*	Not in a structural group	Bi³⁺₂(Te⁴⁺O₃)₂(SO₄)	1	164178	4
Chalcomenite ()*	None	Cu(Se⁴⁺O₃)·2H₂O	1	164178	40
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	164177,164178,164179,164180	30554
Hübnerite ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺(WO₄)	1	164178	469
Juabite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaCu₁₀(Te⁴⁺O₃)₄(AsO₄)₄(OH)₂·4H₂O	1	164178	6
Mixite ()*	Mixite	Cu₆Bi(AsO₄)₃(OH)₆·3H₂O	1	164178	168
Olivenite ()*	Andalusite	Cu₂(AsO₄)(OH)	1	164178	492
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	3	164177,164178,164179	61156
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	164178	2045
Teineite ()*	None	Cu²⁺(Te⁴⁺O₃)·2H₂O	1	164178	14
Tellurite ()*	None	TeO₂	1	164178	52
Xocomecatlite ()*	None	Cu₃(Te⁶⁺O₄)(OH)₄	1	164178	10

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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