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Locality Name:
Porter Peak, South Park District, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 256123
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-256123.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Porter Peak, South Park District, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo Co., California, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Cooper Mine
Mountain Girl Mine (Mountain Girl Deposit; Porter Mine ?; Mountain Girl Claim; Mountain Girl Fraction Claim)
Patented Claim M53097B
Unnamed Arsenopyrite Occurrence [1]

Latitude: 36°2'47"N
Longitude: 117°4'10"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.046388888889,-117.06944444444
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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: As Au C Ca Cu Fe O Pb S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenopyriteCalciteChalcopyriteCopperNickelineNonePyriteQuartzRocksalt

9 IMA Minerals at location:
Arsenopyrite  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)Quartz  (*)Siderite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS11586989052
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)115869627770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2115869627198
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS115869624243
Gold  (*)CopperAu115869630554
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2115869639462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S811586969056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2115869661156
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)11586966417


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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