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:
Black Canyon Spring, White Mts, Inyo Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 255248
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-255248.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Black Canyon Spring, White Mts, Inyo Co., California, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Georgia Mine (Dido And Twilight Claims; X-Ray Mine [??])
Gray Eagle Mine
Gray Eagle No. 2 Prospect
Gray Eagle No. 3 Prospect
Ground Hog Prospect
Happy Day Prospect
Hunington Occurrence
Keystone Prospect
McMillian Brothers Occurrence
Mirage-Mariposa Mine (Wooley Mine; Golden Mirage & Mariposa Claims; Golden Mirage Mine; R&R Claims)
Mistake Occurrence
Moltby Occurrence
North Star Prospect (Twilight; Northstar)
R & R Claims
Sally Prospect
Sand A. Gold Prospect (Sand 'A' Gold & White Wolf Barite)
Stray Dog Mine
Ursi Major Prospect
Vanderburg Occurrence
X-Ray Mine (Little Gem)

Latitude: 37°21'18"N
Longitude: 118°14'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.355,-118.24111111111

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.

Acanthite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Mica	None	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite

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 K O Pb S Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Acanthite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Mica None Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite

10 IMA Minerals at location:

Acanthite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite ()*	Acanthite	Ag₂S	1	159049	2793
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	159053	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	159040,159041,159053	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	3	159041,159049,159053	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	159041	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	159040,159041,159049,159057,159059	30554
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	159059	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	159040,159041,159049	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	159040,159041,159049,159057,159059	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	2	159049,159053	4894

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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