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:
Kings Hill, Iowa Hill District, Placer Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 266269
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-266269.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kings Hill, Iowa Hill District, Placer Co., California, USA": 24
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 24
Child Localities:
Buckeye Mine
Cambridge Occurrence
Campbell Mine
Elizabeth Hill Placer Mine (Elizabeth Hill Mine)
Gleeson Diggings Placer Mine
Iron Quartz Mine
Kings Hill Point Mine
Kings Hill Quartz Mine
Kings Hill Quartz Prospect
Live Oak Placer Mine (Weimar)
McGeechin Placer Gold Mining Company Mine (McGetchin Placer Mine; Mc Geechin Placer Gold Mng Co.)
New York & Refuge Canyon Occurrence
Pioneer Fluming Company Property
Sailors Union Hydraulic Mine
San Jose Keystone Placer Mine (Keystone Mine)
Sniper's Retreat Placer Mine
Theodore Larkin Placer Mine
Unnamed Au Mine [36]
Unnamed Au Mine [43]
Unnamed Au Placer [40]
Unnamed Au Placer [87]
Unnamed Au Prospects [90]
Virtle Placer Mine
Welcome Mine (Welcome Consolidated Mine)

Latitude: 39°4'12"N
Longitude: 120°51'38"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.07,-120.86055555556

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	Quartz

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 O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper None Quartz

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			13	167235,167237,167238,167241,167242,167243,167248,167249,167250,167251,167252,167257,167258	30554
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			3	167242,167243,167252	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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