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Locality Name:
Mormon Hill, Deer Valley District, West Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 264150
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-264150.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mormon Hill, Deer Valley District, West Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA": 32
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 32

Number of Child Localities: 32
Child Localities:
Blue Bank Mine
Boulder Mine [1] (Kaeser Mine)
Clyde Mine
Delores Mine
Dividend Placer
Dormody Placer
Edward Crocker Claim
Edward H. Smith Claim
Golden Dawn Placer Mine
Golden West Mine
Herman H. Frers Claim
James Skinner Jr. & Alex D. Skinner Claim Placer (James Skinner Jr. And Alex D. Skinner Claim)
James Skinner Jr. Claim
Little Pine Hill Placer Mine
Louis Klump Placer Mine
Mammoth Mine
McLellan Placer
Mitchell Prospect
Mormon Hill Mine
Niles Reinhold Placer
Old Jasper Mine
Overlook And Snark Placer Mine
Patchen Placer (Patchen Property)
Pine Hill Mine (Unity)
Pletz Placer Mine
Reliance Mine
Simpson Mine
Spring Placer
Starbuck Placer
Unnamed Placer Au Mine [12] (dredge Tailings)
Victoria Mine
Wulff Placer

Latitude: 38°44'18"N
Longitude: 121°'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.738333333333,-121.00805555556
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 Cr Fe O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNoneQuartzSpinel

4 IMA Minerals at location:
Chromite  (*)Gold  (*)Magnetite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O411553603902
Gold  (*)CopperAu18155334,155335,155336,155342,155343,155347,155348,155349,155351,155352,155355,155356,155357,155358,155362,155363,155364,15536530554
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4115535914899
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO28155335,155336,155343,155349,155351,155352,155357,15536461156


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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