Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Bassetts, Sierra City District, Sierra Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 269894
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-269894.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Bassetts, Sierra City District, Sierra Co., California, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 23

Number of Child Localities: 23
Child Localities:
Arctic Mine
Basset Pride Prospect (Bassetts' Pride Mine)
Butcher Ranch Mine
Hapgood And Miller Prospect (Hapgood & Miller)
Marguerite Mine
Mountaineer Mine (Great Northern)
New Century Placer Mine
Peck Mine (Deer Lake)
Pride Hydraulic Prospect (Pride Mine; Pride Hydralic; Bradly Haley; Paramount)
Sierra Homestake Mine
Tahoe-Tailing Placer
Thousand-And-One Placer Mine (1001 Mine)
Unidentified Au Mine [17]
Unidentified Au Mine [18]
Unidentified Au Occurrence [50]
Unidentified Au Occurrence [52]
Unidentified Au Workings [34]
Unidentified W Prospect [1]
Unnamed Au Prospect [1]
Unnamed Cu Mine [1]
Unnamed Placer Au Mine [74]
Wallis Mine
Young America Mine

Latitude: 39°36'42"N
Longitude: 120°36'10"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.611666666667,-120.60277777778

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.

Chalcopyrite	Copper	Malachite	None	Quartz

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 Cu Fe H O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Chalcopyrite Copper Malachite None Quartz

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Gold ()*	Malachite ()*	Quartz ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	177857	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	177849	3846
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	10	177850,177852,177853,177856,177857,177859,177860,177861,177868,177870	30554
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	177857	12537
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	7	177850,177852,177853,177857,177860,177861,177870	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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