Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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Locality Name:
Port Wine District, Sierra Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 269549
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-269549.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Port Wine District, Sierra Co., California, USA": 34
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 30

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Grass Flat
Port Wine
Queen City
Saint Louis (St Louis)

Latitude: 39°40'17"N
Longitude: 120°55'57"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.671388888889,-120.9325

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.

Clay	Copper	None	Quartz	Stilpnomelane

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 C Ca H K Mg Mn Na O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Copper None Quartz Stilpnomelane

4 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Graphite ()*	Parsettensite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	12	177781,177782,177785,177787,177788,177801,177803,177805,177809,177810,177811,177812	30554
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	177810	2812
Parsettensite ()*	Stilpnomelane Clay	(K,Na,Ca)_7.5(Mn,Mg)₄₉Si₇₂O₁₆₈(OH)₅₀·nH₂O	1	177785	43
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	177801,177810	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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