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:
Quartzburg School, Quartzburg, Hornitos District, West Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 249023
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-249023.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Quartzburg School, Quartzburg, Hornitos District, West Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Burns Creek Mine

Latitude: 37°32'34"N
Longitude: 120°11'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.542777777778,-120.19861111111

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.

Auricupride	Copper	None	Perovskite	Potarite

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 Fe Ir Os Pt Ru S

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Auricupride Copper None Perovskite Potarite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Cooperite ()*	Gold ()*	Iridium ()*	Isoferroplatinum ()*	Osmium ()*
Platinum ()*	Ruthenium ()*	Tetraferroplatinum ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cooperite ()*	None	PtS	1	163348	124
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	163348	30554
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir	1	163348	162
Isoferroplatinum ()*	Auricupride Perovskite	Pt₃Fe	1	163348	128
Osmium ()*	None	Os	1	163348	169
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	1	163348	485
Ruthenium ()*	None	Ru	1	163348	46
Tetraferroplatinum ()*	Potarite	PtFe	1	163348	66

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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