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:
Coso [historical], Coso District (New Coso District), Coso Mts (Coso Range), Inyo Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 256001
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-256001.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Coso [historical], Coso District (New Coso District), Coso Mts (Coso Range), Inyo Co., California, USA": 19
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 19
Child Localities:
C. A. Proper Tungsten Property
Cactus Occurrence
Cosmopolitan Mine
Coso Maid Placer
Draper Tungsten Property (Crisper Claims)
Gold Hill Occurrence [2]
Golden Gate Mine
Golden Rod Mine (Marigold)
Keogh Mine
Mamie Mine (Coso Maid Placer Claim; Coso Boy Quartz Claim)
Mariposa Mine
Maxmaur-Marguerite Group (Yucca; Josephine Mine; Maxmaur-Marguer)
Mountain Kid Group
Old Coso Mine
Orion Mine
Panyo Mine (Panyo Tungsten Mine)
Ross Occurrence
Vin Blano Mine (Vin-Blanc Mine; Vin Blanco Mine)
Wallace Occurrence

Latitude: 36°11'15"N
Longitude: 117°38'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.1875,-117.64138888889

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.

Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	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: Al Au Ca Cu Fe H Mo O S Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Scheelite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Epidote ()*	Gold ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Powellite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	157280	27198
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	157277	8173
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	8	157271,157275,157276,157278,157279,157280,157283,157286	30554
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	157284	5800
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	1	157284	494
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	157279	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	8	157271,157275,157276,157278,157279,157280,157283,157286	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	3	157277,157281,157284	4894

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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