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:
Monarch Canyon Mine, Chloride Cliff District (South Bullfrog District), Funeral Mts (Funeral Range), Amargosa Range, Inyo Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 73
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 257847
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-257847.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Monarch Canyon Mine, Chloride Cliff District (South Bullfrog District), Funeral Mts (Funeral Range), Amargosa Range, Inyo Co., California, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 36°43'30"N
Longitude: 116°54'54"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.725,-116.915

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.

No IMA Minerals occur at this locality according to mindat

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Hg-00109	5.3	0		?-?						Yes		Cinnabar, Metacinnabar	Hg	78635	Chloride Cliff Mine, Chloride Cliff, Chloride City, Chloride Cliff District (South Bullfrog District), Funeral Mts (Funeral Range), Amargosa Range, Inyo Co., California, USA	California Mercury Occurrences	Studemeister (1984)	10.1007/BF00199786	MD19_202
	Bradley_2012_048	73	71	72±1	U/Pb			zircon				Zircon			257847	Monarch Canyon Mine, Chloride Cliff District (South Bullfrog District), Funeral Mts (Funeral Range), Amargosa Range, Inyo Co., California, USA	Monarch Canyon	McCauley and Bradley (2014)	10.3749/canmin.52.2.183	CM52_183

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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