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:
Rescue, Shingle Springs District, West Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 264366
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-264366.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Rescue, Shingle Springs District, West Belt, El Dorado Co., California, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Carpenter Property
Craig Osborne Placer Mine
Craig Royce Placer Mine
Craig Saltwater Placer Mine
Emma J. Hodgkin Placer Mine
Expansion Mine
General Lee; Sunday Bosquet & Golden Age Mine (General Lee; Sunday; Bosquit & Golden Age :: Gen. Lee; Sunday; Bosquit; Golden Age)
Gillespie Mine (Rudolph And Gillespie)
Gordon Mine
Gray And Boxquit Placer
Gray Occurrence (Old Gray)
Green Valley Mine
Leahey And Riley Placer
Martin Arenz Occurrence
Meder Placer
Olds Quartz Mine (Vernon)
Olsen And Baxter Placer
Pelton Placer
Red Raven Placer Mine
Swortfiguer Mine (Expansion Mine)
Thomas & Meldrum Mine (Thomas And Meldrum Mine)
Unnamed Placer Au Mine [14] (dredge Tailings)

Latitude: 38°42'34"N
Longitude: 120°56'1"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.709444444444,-120.93361111111

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.

Copper	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Spinel

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 S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper None Pyrite Quartz Spinel

4 IMA Minerals at location:

Chromite ()*	Gold ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	2	155460,155472	3902
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	12	155452,155453,155454,155455,155456,155457,155458,155459,155463,155467,155470,155473	30554
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	155457	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	155457,155458,155459,155463,155467	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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