Mineral Evolution Database
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Locality Name:
Cornish House, American Hill District, Sierra Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 269483
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-269483.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cornish House, American Hill District, Sierra Co., California, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Black Jack Mine
Columbia Channel
Comet Mine (Republic Group; Alhambra Group)
Eagle Bird Mine
Elkton Claims
Emerald Mine (Emerald Quartz Group; Emerald Quartz Grp.)
Ironsides Mine
Isabel Placer
Jim Crow Mine
Lonesome Pine Mine
Pliocene Mine
Republic Group
Unidentified Au Mine [12]
Unnamed Au Mine [10]
Unnamed Au Prospect [69]
Viola Group

Latitude: 39°31'1"N
Longitude: 120°46'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.516944444444,-120.77305555556

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 O Pb S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNoneQuartzRocksalt

3 IMA Minerals at location:
Galena  (*)Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS117740324243
Gold  (*)CopperAu11177397,177399,177400,177402,177403,177404,177405,177406,177408,177409,17741230554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO29177397,177399,177400,177402,177403,177405,177406,177408,17740961156



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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