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Locality Name:
Banner Mountain (Banner Hill), Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 268524
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-268524.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Banner Mountain (Banner Hill), Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Brackett Lode Mine
Butterfly & Big Blue Mine (Butterfly And Big Blue)
Commander Placer
Duke; Murchie And Sailor Placer
Good Pay Placer Mine
Hickson Mine
Kohinoor Quartz Mine (Kohinoor Qtz; Kohinoor And Harmony; Harmony)
Lava Cap-Banner-Central Group (Central Consolidated; South Banner; North Banner)
Providence & Murchie Mines
Union Mine (New York)
Woodville Gold Quartz Mine (Woodville Gold Qtz; Woodville)
Work And Pay Placer

Latitude: 39°14'48"N
Longitude: 120°58'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.246666666667,-120.97833333333
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: Ag As Au Ca Cu Fe Mn O Pb S Sb Si W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AcanthiteArsenopyriteCopperNickelineNonePyriteQuartzRocksaltRutileScheelite
SphaleriteTetrahedriteWollastonite

14 IMA Minerals at location:
Acanthite  (*)Arsenopyrite  (*)Freibergite  (*)Galena  (*)Gold  (*)
Pyrargyrite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrolusite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)Quartz  (*)
Scheelite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)Wollastonite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Acanthite  (*)AcanthiteAg2S11658622793
Arsenopyrite  (*)ArsenopyriteFeAsS2165861,1658659052
Freibergite  (*)TetrahedriteAg6[Cu4Fe2]Sb4S121165861663
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2165861,16586524243
Gold  (*)CopperAu11165854,165855,165858,165859,165860,165862,165864,165865,165866,165868,16586930554
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS32165861,1658621425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22165861,16586539462
Pyrolusite  (*)RutileMnO211658653106
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S811658619056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO210165854,165855,165859,165860,165861,165862,165864,165866,165868,16586961156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)11658624894
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS2165861,16586521482
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S132165862,1658655317
Wollastonite  (*)WollastoniteCaSiO311658621247


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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