Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
Andrews Mountain, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 254380
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-254380.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Andrews Mountain, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo Co., California, USA": 19
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 19
Child Localities:
Alice Extension Prospect
Alice Prospect
Andrews Nos. 1-17 Prospect
Big Pine Copper No. 1 Prospect
Big Pine Prospect
Black Aster Prospect
Blake Mine (Black Joe Claim; Grover Claim; Black Ann Claim; Lindsay; Cleveland Claim; Holiday Claim)
Blister Lode Prospect
Blue Crystal Nos. 1-6 Prospect
Denman Mine (Squaw Flat Nos. 1-4)
Dorothy Prospect
Green Giant Marble Nos. 1-8 Mine
Kaweah Prospect
Montezuma Mine (Montezuma South Prospect)
Overholtz Occurrence
Squaw Flat No. 1-4 Mine (Denman Mine)
Unnamed Ag Prospect [1] (Unknown 14; 10; 36; Unknown 18; 10; 36)
Unnamed Ag-Cu-Zn-Pb Prospect [1] (Unknown 18; 10; 36)
Unspecified Pb Occurrence [3]

Latitude: 37°5'39"N
Longitude: 118°7'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.094166666667,-118.12111111111

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.

Aragonite	Copper	None	Not in a structural group	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: Au C Ca Cu Fe H Mg O Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Copper None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Tetrahedrite

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Azurite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Litharge ()*	Massicot ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	157693	5509
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	157693	4979
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	157693	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	157693	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	157689	30554
Litharge ()*	None	PbO	1	157698	139
Massicot ()*	None	PbO	1	157698	202
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	157693	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	157689,157693	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	157693	21482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	1	157693	5317

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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