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Locality Name:
Monte Cristo, Wheeler Peak, Patterson District, Sweetwater Mts (Sweetwater Range), Mono Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 247866
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-247866.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Monte Cristo, Wheeler Peak, Patterson District, Sweetwater Mts (Sweetwater Range), Mono Co., California, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Mineral Chief Mining Company Mine (Mineral Chief Minco Mine)
Monte Cristo Mine (Livingston Mine)
Thoroughbrace Mine

Latitude: 38°24'50"N
Longitude: 119°14'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.413888888889,-119.23333333333

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: Ag Au Cl Fe O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteCopperNonePyriteQuartzRocksalt

6 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Chlorargyrite  (*)Gold  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Silver  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S11644242793
Chlorargyrite  (*)RocksaltAgCl11644241382
Gold  (*)CopperAu3164423,164424,16442530554
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2116442439462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22164423,16442561156
Silver  (*)CopperAg11644245186



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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