Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

The Mineral Evolution database is currently under development.

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:
Cerro Gordo Peak Area, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 254333
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-254333.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cerro Gordo Peak Area, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo Co., California, USA": 12
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
American Prospect
Bonham Talc Mine (White Mountain Mine; White Mountain Group Of Deposits; Talc Properties; Alberta; Mae West Deposit; Florence & Mae West; Cerro Gordo Soapstone)
Florence Talc Mine (Florence Deposit; Mars Claims)
Irwin Occurrence
Lost Frenchman Occurrence
McDonald Occurrence
Reid Group
Robin Hood Occurrence
Shafer Occurrence
St. Elmo Mine
Unnamed Talc Occurrence [2]
Ventura Mine (Silver Reef Claim; Sunset)

Latitude: 36°33'32"N
Longitude: 117°48'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.558888888889,-117.80777777778

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.

Clay	Copper	Malachite	None	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Talc

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 C Cu H Mg O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Copper Malachite None Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Talc

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Malachite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Talc ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	157797,157808	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	157806	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	157797	12537
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	157806	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	2	157797,157808	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	2	157798,157799	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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