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Locality Name:
Church Meadows, Sierra City District, Sierra Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 269560
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-269560.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Church Meadows, Sierra City District, Sierra Co., California, USA": 17
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Adelaide Mine
Agate Placer Prospect
Bull Of The Woods Mine
Carmen Placer Prospect
Hughes And Westfall Hydraulic Placer Mine (Yuba; Westfall; New York)
Locke Mine
Lone Wolf Group (Big Jim Claims; Gold Medal; White Horse; Lone Wolf Claim; Lone Wolf Extension; Lone Wolf Ext.)
Mayday & Undine Placer Prospect
Mountaineer Mine
Sebastapol Mine (Star; Extension; Placer Mine; Last Resort; Hansen Bros)
Unidentified Au Prospect [36]
Unidentified Au Prospect [38]
Unidentified Au Prospect [39]
Unidentified Au Prospect [40]
Unidentified Au Prospect [41]
Unidentified Au Prospect [42]
Unnamed Au Occurrence [63]

Latitude: 39°40'23"N
Longitude: 120°35'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.673055555556,-120.5975

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 Ca Fe Mg O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNonePyroxeneQuartz

3 IMA Minerals at location:
Augite  (*)Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Augite  (*)Pyroxene(Ca,Mg,Fe)2Si2O611778812060
Gold  (*)CopperAu6177872,177874,177876,177878,177880,17788130554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO25177872,177874,177878,177880,17788161156



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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