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Locality Name:
Nashville (Quartzburg), Nashville District, Mother Lode Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 264212
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-264212.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nashville (Quartzburg), Nashville District, Mother Lode Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA": 35
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 35

Number of Child Localities: 35
Child Localities:
Adams Gulch Mine (White Oak; Stony Point; Sullivan)
Baldwin Mine (National)
Balmaceda Mine
Bonanza Mine [1] (Bananza Mine)
Briar Cliff Mine (Briarcliffe Mines; Last Chance Claim; Baldwin Claim)
California Consolidated Occurrence
Confidence Consolidated Mine (Confidence Cons.; Confidence Claim; Last Park Saddle Claim; Mechanics Lode Claim; Pack Horse Lode Claim; Leva B Lode Claim)
Delaney Placer
East Nashville Mine
Fiane Mine
Fusey Placer
Gold Mountain And Monitor Mine
Inez Mine (Central Mine)
Lone Star Mine [2]
Manhatten Consolidated Mine (Manhattan Mine; Manhatten - California)
Margareth Mine
McCurdy Mine [1]
McDowell Mine
Monarch Consolidated Mine (Monarch Cons.; Washington Claim; Nashville [Baldwin] Claim; Last Chance Claim; Nome Claim; Oregon Claim; Columbia Claim; Portland Claim; Willametter Claim)
Montezuma-Apex And Montezuma Extension
Nashville Mine (Havilah Claim; East Havilah Claim; Northeast Nashville Claim; Tennessee-Nashville)
Nashville South Extension Mine
Ontario Lodes Mine
Padre Mine
River Pine Mining Company Mine (River Pine Mng Co.)
Sleeping Beauty Mine
Unnamed Au Mine [28] (Two Adits)
Unnamed Au Mine [50] (unnamed Shaft)
Unnamed Au Mine [51] (Unnamed Shaft)
Unnamed Au Mine [52] (Unnamed Shaft)
Unnamed Au Mine [53] (Unnamed Shaft)
Unnamed Au Occurrence [35] (Unnamed Adit)
Vandergreft Mine (Vandergraft)
Wagner Mine
Wiltshire Mine

Latitude: 38°34'41"N
Longitude: 120°50'8"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.578055555556,-120.83555555556

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 C Ca Fe O S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CalciteCopperNonePyriteQuartz

4 IMA Minerals at location:
Calcite  (*)Gold  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)115470027770
Gold  (*)CopperAu24154680,154681,154682,154683,154684,154686,154688,154689,154691,154692,154694,154695,154696,154697,154698,154700,154701,154702,154703,154704,154705,154712,154713,15471430554
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2115470039462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO223154680,154681,154682,154683,154684,154686,154688,154689,154691,154692,154694,154695,154696,154697,154698,154700,154701,154702,154703,154705,154712,154713,15471461156



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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