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Locality Name:
Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 125.4
Youngest recorded age at locality: 102.6

mindat Locality ID: 248226
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-248226.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Belleview Mine
Canady Mine
Dave Smith Mine
Eighty-Six Mine
Erickson Pumice Mine
L. H. Miller Mine
S. E. Canady Mine (Canady Mine)
Unnamed Diatomite Occurrence (1)
Unnamed Stone Quarry (1)

Latitude: 37°2'41"N
Longitude: 119°44'13"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.044722222222,-119.73694444444

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 H O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AmorphousCopperNoneQuartz

3 IMA Minerals at location:
Gold  (*)Opal  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Gold  (*)CopperAu125.4102.64162186,162187,162189,16219130554
Opal  (*)AmorphousSiO2·nH2O125.4102.611621932994
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2110.3105.22162186,16218761156



11 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
NAVDAT-32231125.4102.6114±11.4   32231    248226Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00891_206_238110.3110.3110.3206_238 zircon   Zircon  81545Belleview Mine, Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA USGS-U-Th-Pb USGS-U-Th-Pb 
USGS-U-Th-Pb-00891_207_235105.2105.2105.2207_235 zircon   Zircon  81545Belleview Mine, Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA USGS-U-Th-Pb USGS-U-Th-Pb 
NAVDAT-32233125.4102.6114±11.4   32233    81610Eighty-Six Mine, Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-32241125.4102.6114±11.4   32241    81610Eighty-Six Mine, Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-32242125.4102.6114±11.4   32242    81610Eighty-Six Mine, Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-32243125.4102.6114±11.4   32243    81610Eighty-Six Mine, Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-32244125.4102.6114±11.4   32244    81610Eighty-Six Mine, Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-32245125.4102.6114±11.4   32245    81610Eighty-Six Mine, Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-37783116112114±2   37783    81610Eighty-Six Mine, Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-37781116112114±2   37781    81823Unnamed Stone Quarry (1), Indian Springs, Madera Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 


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