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Locality Name:
Lee (Lees Camp), Echo-Lee District, Funeral Mts (Funeral Range), Amargosa Range, Inyo Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 256831
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-256831.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lee (Lees Camp), Echo-Lee District, Funeral Mts (Funeral Range), Amargosa Range, Inyo Co., California, USA": 26
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 26

Number of Child Localities: 26
Child Localities:
Bullfrog Echo Mine
Chambers Mine
Daddy Lee Mine
Ducks Mine
Flapjack Mine
Georgia Lee Mine
Gold Shield Mine
Hayseed Extension Mine
Hayseed Mine (Hayseed Gold Mine; Hayseed And State Line Lodes)
Hidden Treasure Consolidated Mine (Lee Hidden Treasure Mine)
Honeysuckle Extension Mine
Honeysuckle Mine (Honeysuckle Mining Co.)
Jumbo Consolidated Mine
Lea Gold Grotto Mine
Lee Bank Mine
Lee Buster Mine
Lee Cold Crest Mine
Lee Comstock Mine
Lee Florence Mine
Lee State Line Mine
Lee Whale Mine
Nero Mine
Peerless Lee Mine
Squash Group
Tenderfoot Mine
Utopia Mine

Latitude: 36°32'35"N
Longitude: 116°40'39"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.543055555556,-116.6775

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: Au O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNoneQuartz

2 IMA Minerals at location:
Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Gold  (*)CopperAu4157010,157014,157015,15702930554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO24157010,157014,157015,15702961156



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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