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:
Tuttletown District, Mother Lode Belt, Tuolumne Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 5.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 250056
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-250056.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tuttletown District, Mother Lode Belt, Tuolumne Co., California, USA": 84
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 79

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Goodwin Ranch
Tuttletown

Latitude: 38°0'24"N
Longitude: 120°27'18"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.006666666667,-120.455

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.

Calcite	Clay	Copper	Feldspar	Mica	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Sphalerite

Albite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cinnabar ()*
Coloradoite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hessite ()*
Magnesite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Petzite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Quartz ()*	Tellurium ()*

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: Ag Al Au C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Si Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Clay Copper Feldspar Mica Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Sphalerite

17 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	5.3	2	183564,183602	8803
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	5.3	2	183588,183602	3092
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	5.3	2	183580,183602	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	5.3	3	183553,183578,183602	27770
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	5.3	1	183580	2600
Coloradoite ()*	Sphalerite	HgTe	5.3	1	183602	169
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	5.3	1	183602	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5.3	3	183588,183589,183602	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5.3	42	183550,183551,183552,183553,183554,183555,183560,183564,183565,183566,183568,183576,183577,183578,183582,183586,183588,183589,183592,183593,183594,183595,183596,183597,183599,183601,183602,183603,183606,183608,183609,183611,183614,183615,183616,183617,183622,183624,183625,183626,183627,183628	30554
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	5.3	1	183602	804
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	5.3	1	183559	1487
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	5.3	1	183602	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	5.3	2	183548,183564	17380
Petzite ()*	None	Ag₃AuTe₂	5.3	1	183602	409
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	5.3	6	183552,183560,183564,183578,183602,183606	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5.3	10	183552,183553,183564,183578,183588,183589,183597,183599,183602,183616	61156
Tellurium ()*	None	Te	5.3	1	183548	190

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Hg-00034	5.3	0		?-?						Yes		Imiterite	Hg	3581	Golden Rule Mine, Jumper & Golden Rule Group (Jumper Mine; Jumper Claim; Jumper Deposit; New Era Claim), Jamestown Mine (Jamestown Group), Jamestown, Jamestown District, Mother Lode Belt, Tuolumne Co., California, USA	California Mercury Occurrences	Studemeister (1984)	10.1007/BF00199786	MD19_202

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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