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Locality Name:
Red Top Mountain, Minarets District (Mountain District; Raymond District; Minaret District), Ritter Range, Madera Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 248254
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-248254.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Red Top Mountain, Minarets District (Mountain District; Raymond District; Minaret District), Ritter Range, Madera Co., California, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Beck Lakes
Blue Bird Claim (Bluebird Claim)
Cochran Occurrence
Eagle Prospect (Eagle Tungsten Claim; Big Lead Tungsten Claim)
Granmer Group
I. N. Cochran Claim
Kennedy Prospect (Superior; King Creek Group; Joe Kennedy)
Minaret Mine (Johnston; Johnston Group; Minaret; Minarets Prospect)
Minaret-Kings Creek Trail Occurrence
Red Top Mountain Prospects (Dome Claims)
Saddle Claim
Sam's Dream & Hatchet Claims (Alta Claims)
Sierra Mine (Sierra Gold And Silver Mine)
Silver Reef Claim

Latitude: 37°38'45"N
Longitude: 119°8'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.645833333333,-119.14138888889
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: Al Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Mo O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteChalcopyriteClinozoisiteEpidoteMolybdeniteNonePyriteStibnite

7 IMA Minerals at location:
Aragonite  (*)Bismuthinite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Epidote  (*)Ferrimolybdite  (*)
Molybdenite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)11623273250
Bismuthinite  (*)StibniteBi2S311623391935
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2116233327198
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)11623348173
Ferrimolybdite  (*)NoneFe3+2(Mo6+O4)3·7H2O1162335345
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS211623355800
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22162326,16233339462


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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