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Locality Name:
Scottsville, Jackson-Plymouth District, Mother Lode Belt, Amador Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 263834
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-263834.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Scottsville, Jackson-Plymouth District, Mother Lode Belt, Amador Co., California, USA": 47
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 47

Number of Child Localities: 47
Child Localities:
Acme Consolidated Prospect (Acme Cons.; Robinson; Tiger Claim; Acme Claim; Acme Mill Claim; New Years Cons. [?]; M & M Claim [?])
Alphi Prospect (Alpi)
Amador Gold Mine (Amador Queen No. 1 Mine; Aetna Mine; McKay And Love; School House Mine)
Amador Queen No. 2 Mine
Avala Prospect (Alva)
Baratini Mine
Confidence Prospect
Consolidated McNamara Prospect (Price McNamara Prospect)
Crannis Prospect
Dewitt Mine (Haley; Dewitt No. 1 And No. 2; Fellows And Moulton Claim; Ingal Claim; Loveridge & Lockwood Claim; Sylustr & Briggs Claim; Mahoney & Hall Claim)
Doyle Mine
Elephantine Prospect
Empire Prospect
Evans Prospect (Meek)
Farrell Prospect
Fuller Mine
George Thomas Prospect
Hardenburg Mine (Hardenburgh Mine; Hardenbergh Mine)
Isaac Newton Prospect
Jose Gulch Mine (Brown Claim; Aurora Claim; Crown Claim)
Julia Prospect
Kelly Prospect
Kruger And Vaughn Mine
L. K. Hall Prospect
Law Lottier Prospect
Little Sargent Prospect
Littlefield Prospect (New Albany Consolidated; Middle Bar G.M.; Middle Bar Group)
Mammoth Mine [1] (Nevill's Mine; Mamoth Mine)
McKay And Love Prospect
McKinney And Crannis Prospect (Crannis)
Meehan Consolidated Prospect
Middle Bar Quartz Mine
Mineral Point Occurrence
Moore Mine
New Albany Claims
New Years Consolidated Mine (New Years Cons.)
Red Crown Prospect
Roberts Lease Mine
Sargent Mine (Sargent And Marlette)
South Jackson Mine
St. Julian Prospect (St. Junian Prospect)
Tripp Prospect
Unnamed Au Prospect [42]
Unnamed Au Prospect [44]
Valpariso Mine (Black Metal Mine)
Vulture Prospect
Wetzler Prospect (Watzler Prospect)

Latitude: 38°18'47"N
Longitude: 120°45'8"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.313055555556,-120.75222222222
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 Fe O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ArsenopyriteCopperNoneQuartz

3 IMA Minerals at location:
Arsenopyrite  (*)Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS11511299052
Gold  (*)CopperAu28151126,151127,151129,151131,151133,151135,151136,151138,151139,151140,151143,151144,151145,151146,151147,151148,151150,151153,151155,151156,151158,151159,151162,151164,151165,151166,151167,15117030554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO210151129,151139,151140,151143,151153,151155,151164,151166,151167,15117061156


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