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Locality Name:
Sweetwater Point, Jerseydale District, East Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 249226
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-249226.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sweetwater Point, Jerseydale District, East Belt, Mariposa Co., California, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Donnelly Carrier Prospect (Donnelly Property)
Early Mine (Early Claim; George Placer; Felix Lode Claim; Revel Claim; Revel No. 2 Claim; Louisa Claim)
Iowa Mine (New York Mine; Iowa And New York Mine)
Last Hope Mine
Mebold II Mine
Monte Cristo Mine (Excelsior Mine)
Sweetwater II Mine
Union And Summit Mine

Latitude: 37°34'33"N
Longitude: 119°53'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.575833333333,-119.88972222222
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 Au Ca Fe H K Mn O Pb S Si W 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ClayCopperMicaNonePyriteQuartzRhodoniteRocksaltRutileScheelite

8 IMA Minerals at location:
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Muscovite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrolusite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Rhodonite  (*)Scheelite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS116265324243
Gold  (*)CopperAu2162653,16265830554
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2116265217380
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22162653,16265839462
Pyrolusite  (*)RutileMnO211626523106
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22162653,16265861156
Rhodonite  (*)RhodoniteCaMn3Mn(Si5O15)1162652969
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)11626534894


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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