Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Fair Play, Fairplay District, El Dorado Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 264157
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-264157.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Fair Play, Fairplay District, El Dorado Co., California, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
C. D. Lane Claim
Consumnes Mine (Consumnes Copper Mine)
Fair Play Hill Placer
Fairplay Placer (California Mohawk)
Michigan Placer
Staples & Company Placer
Unnamed Au Placer Mine [7] (dredge Tailings)
Unnamed Hornblende Occurrence [1]

Latitude: 38°35'59"N
Longitude: 120°38'3"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.599722222222,-120.63416666667

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.

Axinite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet	Malachite
Molybdenite	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrophyllite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Scheelite	Stibnite

Axinite-(Mn) ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*
Gold ()*	Grossular ()*	Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Powellite ()*	Pyrophyllite ()*	Quartz ()*	Stibnite ()*

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: Al Au B C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Mo O S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Axinite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Feldspar Garnet Malachite
Molybdenite None Not in a structural group Pyrophyllite Pyroxene Quartz Scheelite Stibnite

19 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Axinite-(Mn) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Mn²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	1	154276	88
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	1	154276	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	154276	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	154276	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	1	154276	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	154276	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	154276	3846
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	154276	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	154276	8173
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	1	154276	345
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	154276,154278	30554
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	154276	1544
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	154276	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	1	154276	5800
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	154276	2349
Powellite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(MoO₄)	1	154276	494
Pyrophyllite ()*	Clay Pyrophyllite	Al₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	154276	771
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	154276	61156
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	154276	3418

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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