Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Red Buttes, El Paso Mountains District, El Paso Mts, Kern Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 270850
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-270850.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Red Buttes, El Paso Mountains District, El Paso Mts, Kern Co., California, USA": 33
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 33

Number of Child Localities: 33
Child Localities:
Angus Property
Big Bully Prospect
Black Eagle Group
Black Mountain Group
Boulder Claim (El Paso Mtn. Placers [0060290757])
Broken Spade Claims
Calsilco Mine (Holly Camp; Calsilco Holly Camp)
Copper Queen Claims
Crystal Springs Prospect
Dutch Cleanser Mine (Cudahy Old Dutch Cleanser Mine; Cudahy Pumicite Deposit; Sesmotite Mine)
Ebers And Heaps Property
Florence Claims
Fredle Claim
Golden Rule Prospect
Gray Eagle Group
J And L Claim
Koehn Clay Deposit (Koehn Deposit; Red Rose Claim; White Rose Claim)
Lees Copper Claims (Lees Copper Claim; Lee's Copper Claims; Copper Basin Mine; Schmidt Camp; Burro Schmidts Tunnel)
McKendry Group (McKentry; McKendry Bentonite; Daly Claim; Day Claim; Grubstake Hill Claim)
Mickey Mouse Lead Mine
Mojave Prospect
Moon Claim
Opal Extension And South Opal Group Prospect (Opal Extension; Opal Extension And South Opal Gp.; New Joshua)
Orphan Anne Prospect
Parrott And Allee Claims
Pasadena Mine
Rattle Snake Group
Red Rock Meteorite
Roaring Ridge Prospect
Stevens Deposit
Unnamed Zeolite Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Zeolite Occurrence [2]
White Bluff Occurrence

Latitude: 35°25'12"N
Longitude: 117°54'50"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.42,-117.91388888889

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	None	Quartz	Rocksalt

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 Na O Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

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

5 IMA Minerals at location:

Chalcopyrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Quartz ()*	Thermonatrite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	159459,159475	27198
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	159478	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	5	159456,159457,159470,159477,159478	30554
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	159459,159460,159469,159475,159478	61156
Thermonatrite ()*	None	Na₂(CO₃)·H₂O	1	159468	64

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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