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


mindat Locality ID: 270854
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-270854.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ricardo, El Paso Mountains District, El Paso Mts, Kern Co., California, USA": 19
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 19
Child Localities:
Cantil Pit
Croesus Group (Little Charlie)
Dawn Claims
El Paso Mountain Placers (El Paso Mtn. Placers; Ricardo Claim; Ricardo Placer; Ricardo Deep Channel No. 1 Claim; Deep Channel Claim; Tufa Quarry Claim)
Ella B Placer Mine
Golden Glow Placer Mine
Hancock Deposit
Iron Canyon Mine (Brown And White; Brown-Whiten; Sesomotite Mine; Seisomite; Iron Canyon Brown And White)
Klondike Group (Cash Register; Voss Consolidated; Bond Buyer)
Little Jimmy Prospect
Orange Blossom Group (Manning)
Petrified Forest
Queenie Mine
Red Rock Canyon Prospects
Richardo Placer
Sego-Lily Occurrence
Snow White Mine
Unnamed Calcite Occurrence [1]
White Clay Nos. 1 And 2 Prospect (White Clay No.s 1 & 2; Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company)

Latitude: 35°22'28"N
Longitude: 117°57'33"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.374444444444,-117.95916666667
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: Al Au B C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Na O S Si Ti 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AmorphousAnalcimeBrookiteCalciteClayCopperMalachiteMicaMordeniteNatrolite
NoneQuartzSmectite-vermiculiteThomsonite

15 IMA Minerals at location:
Analcime  (*)Bornite  (*)Brookite  (*)Calcite  (*)Celadonite  (*)
Gold  (*)Malachite  (*)Mesolite  (*)Montmorillonite  (*)Mordenite  (*)
Natrolite  (*)Opal  (*)Quartz  (*)Thomsonite-Ca  (*)Ulexite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Analcime  (*)AnalcimeNa(AlSi2O6)·H2O11594991627
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS411594965516
Brookite  (*)BrookiteTiO21159499700
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)2159499,15950327770
Celadonite  (*)Mica ClayKMgFe3+Si4O10(OH)21159499309
Gold  (*)CopperAu3159490,159491,15949430554
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2115949612537
Mesolite  (*)NatroliteNa2Ca2(Si9Al6)O30·8H2O1159499425
Montmorillonite  (*)Clay Smectite-vermiculite(Na,Ca)0.3(Al,Mg)2Si4O10(OH)2·nH2O11594931508
Mordenite  (*)Mordenite(Na2,Ca,K2)4(Al8Si40)O96·28H2O1159499405
Natrolite  (*)NatroliteNa2(Si3Al2)O10·2H2O11594991236
Opal  (*)AmorphousSiO2·nH2O2159497,1594992994
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22159496,15949961156
Thomsonite-Ca  (*)ThomsoniteNaCa2(Al5Si5)O20·6H2O1159499452
Ulexite  (*)NoneNaCaB5O6(OH)6·5H2O1159499160


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