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Locality Name:
Glenbrook, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 157
Youngest recorded age at locality: 157

mindat Locality ID: 268553
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-268553.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Glenbrook, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Anrolal Star Gold Quartz Mine (Anrolal Star Gold Qtz.)
Auroral Star Occurrence
Corinth Consolidated Mine (Corinth Cons.)
Deer Creek Placer Mining Company Property (Unknown Placer Au Prospect)
East Orleans Quartz Mine (East Orleans Qtz.)
Grass Valley - Boreham Gold Mining Company Mine
Hooper Prospect (A. E. Hooper Occurrence)
Hughes Mine [2]
Ismert Placer
New England Consolidated Mine (New England Cons.)
Plumas Lode Mine
Potsoi Quartz Mine
Race Track Placer
Shanghai Placer
Shelby Hill Placer Mine
Snyder Property

Latitude: 39°14'37"N
Longitude: 121°2'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.243611111111,-121.03722222222

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 Cr Fe O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNoneQuartzSpinel

3 IMA Minerals at location:
Chromite  (*)Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O41571572165880,1658893902
Gold  (*)CopperAu10165874,165876,165877,165878,165879,165881,165883,165884,165885,16588830554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO27165874,165876,165878,165879,165883,165884,16588561156



1 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
podchrome-00171157157Middle Jurassic       Cr84726Snyder Property, Glenbrook, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USASnyder PropertyMoiser et al. (2012) USGSSIR2012_5157 


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