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Locality Name:
Inspiration Point, Green Mountain District, Piute Mts, Kern Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 270876
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-270876.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Inspiration Point, Green Mountain District, Piute Mts, Kern Co., California, USA": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Doble Mine (Summit Mine; Wall Street Mine)
Faust Prospect
Gold Standard Mine (Gold Standard Prospect)
Heirloom Prospect
Jeannette-Grant Mine (Jeanette Grant Mine; Jenette-Grant Mines)
Lone Star Mine (Lone Star Group; Evening Star Mine; North Star Mine)
Lucky Three Group
Mary Etta Mine (Mary Etta Lowe Prospect)
Moreland Mine (Moreland Property)
Reform Mine
Summit Group
Sweepstakes Prospect
Wall Street Group
Weldon Meadow Claim
Yellow Boy Mine

Latitude: 35°30'10"N
Longitude: 118°22'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.502777777778,-118.37444444444
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: Ag Au Ca Fe O S Sb Si W Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNonePyriteQuartzScheeliteSphaleriteStibnite

7 IMA Minerals at location:
Gold  (*)Pyrargyrite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)
Sphalerite  (*)Stibnite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Gold  (*)CopperAu8159952,159954,159956,159957,159961,159962,159964,15996630554
Pyrargyrite  (*)NoneAg3SbS311599611425
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2115995639462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2115995461156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)2159959,1599604894
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS115995621482
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S311599563418


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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