Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Texas Hill, Kinsley District, East Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 248878
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-248878.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Texas Hill, Kinsley District, East Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA": 35
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 35

Number of Child Localities: 35
Child Localities:
Bandarita Mine (Bandaritta Mine; Eclipse Mine; Goodwin Mine; Bandarita Nos. 1 & 2 Claims; Little Fort Knox Claim; Fort Knox No. 2 Claim; Kinsley Nos. 1; 2 & 3 Claims)
Black I Mine
Bower Cave Deposits Prospect
Bull Creek Placer
Bunce Mine
Contention And Black Oak Mine
Diehl Group
Fraser Claims (Fraser And Frank Group; Frank Group)
Garfield Mine
Garibaldi Mine (Blue Lead Mine)
Gold King Mine (Martin - Walling Mine; Sunshine Mine)
Golden Gate Mine
Golden Virgin (Green Emigrant)
Happy Home Mine
Hasloe Mine (Hasloc Mine; Funk; Coward; Hasloe & Centuary; Gentry Gulch)
Independence I Mine (Twin Springs)
June Mine
Kinsley Deposit (Jenkins Ranch)
Last Chance I Mine (Homestake Mine; Homestead Claim; Pine Flat 1 - 2 & 3 Claims)
Last Chance Mine
Lovely Rogers Mine (Cherokee Mine; Shiner Mine)
Mystery Mine (Squaw Flat; Mistery; Sqaw Flat)
Nevills Group (Navills Group)
Quail Mine
Reed Mine
Scanlon Group (Scanton Group; Shallaly Claim; Bonanza Claim; Gold Road Claim; Chance Claim; Oversight Claim; Checkmate Claim)
Star Mine
Texas Hill Mines (Carrie Todd Claim)
Unnamed Au Occurrence [22]
Unnamed Au Property [41]
Unnamed Au Property [53]
Unnamed Au Prospect [21]
Unnamed Au Prospect [23]
Water Lily Claim
Younger Mine

Latitude: 37°41'12"N
Longitude: 120°1'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.686666666667,-120.02388888889

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.

Arsenopyrite	Copper	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Tetrahedrite

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: As Au C Cu Fe O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Copper None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	1	162702	9052
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	162702,162717	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	15	162702,162703,162705,162707,162708,162710,162711,162712,162713,162714,162716,162717,162722,162728,162736	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	162712	2812
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	162702,162712,162717	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	12	162702,162703,162707,162708,162710,162711,162712,162713,162714,162722,162728,162736	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	162702	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	2	162702,162712	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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