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Locality Name:
Alta Sierra, Greenhorn District (Greenhorn Mountains District), Greenhorn Mts, Kern Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 270923
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-270923.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Alta Sierra, Greenhorn District (Greenhorn Mountains District), Greenhorn Mts, Kern Co., California, USA": 35
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 35

Number of Child Localities: 35
Child Localities:
Betty Lou Mine
Big Oscar Antimony Deposit (Big Oscar Mine; The Abaca Mining Company)
Big Sugar Mine (Big Spud Mine)
Black Mountain King Mine (Black Mtn. King Mine; Huckabay Mine)
Black Mountain Pegmatite Dike
Black Sambo Mine (Susie Q Prospect; Susie Q Mine)
Butte Mine (Hillside Mine)
Cadillac Mine (Cadillac Claims; Rand Mine)
Cedar Creek (Cedar Creek District)
Charles Reeves Mine
Good Enough Mine (Good Enough Prospect; Gribble Group)
Great Monarch Tungsten Prospect
High Power Mine (Power Line; High Power Prospect; Powerline Mine)
Ideal Group
Jackpot No. 2 Mine
King Occurrence
Little Acorn Mine (Aldridge Mine; Zelner Mine; Little Acorn Deposit)
Lucky Hit Mine (Lucky Hit Deposit; Buckhorn; Why Not)
Lucky Strike Mine (Lucky Strike Deposit; Gribble Group)
Major Mine (Sweet Marie; Rand Group; June Ione)
Mineral Mountain Claims Nos. 1-5 (Mineral Mtn. Claims Nos. 1-5; Mineral Mtn. Mining Claims 1-5)
Owl Mine (Wood-Owl Mine)
Pala Ranch Mine (Reagan; Old Andrew)
Rand Lode Mining Claim
Shirley Creek Quartz Prospect
Silver Strand Prospect (Silver Strand Mine)
Smith Mine (Smith Prospect; Dorothy Bennett)
Smith Prospect (Dorothy Bennett)
Trixie Mine (Trixie Prospect; Herschel Kelso)
Unspecified Sb Occurrence [3]
Unspecified W Occurrence [2]
Victory Mine (Victory Prospect)
Wattenbarger Prospect
Wildcat Mine (Wildcat Prospect)
Wood No. 7 Mine (Wood No. 7 Prospect)

Latitude: 35°44'51"N
Longitude: 118°33'25"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.7475,-118.55694444444
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 C Ca Cu Fe H Mg Mo O S Sb Si W 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AmphiboleArsenicCalciteChalcopyriteClinozoisiteEpidoteHumboldtineMolybdeniteNickelineNone
OxalatePyritePyroxeneQuartzScheeliteStibniteWollastonite

15 IMA Minerals at location:
Antimony  (*)Calcite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Clinozoisite  (*)Diopside  (*)
Epidote  (*)Humboldtine  (*)Molybdenite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)Stibnite  (*)Tremolite  (*)Wollastonite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Antimony  (*)ArsenicSb1159598363
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)7159569,159575,159576,159581,159586,159588,15959727770
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2115958827198
Clinozoisite  (*)Clinozoisite EpidoteCa2Al3[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)2159575,1595791025
Diopside  (*)PyroxeneCaMgSi2O64159569,159574,159575,1595794135
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)14159569,159571,159572,159574,159575,159576,159579,159581,159585,159586,159588,159591,159597,1596008173
Humboldtine  (*)Humboldtine OxalateFe2+(C2O4)·2H2O115957227
Molybdenite  (*)MolybdeniteMoS22159577,1595885800
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23159576,159586,15958839462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S82159588,1595999056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO213159569,159571,159573,159574,159575,159576,159579,159581,159585,159586,159588,159591,15959761156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)20159571,159572,159574,159575,159576,159577,159578,159579,159581,159582,159585,159586,159588,159590,159591,159597,159599,159600,159602,1596034894
Stibnite  (*)StibniteSb2S33159570,159574,1595983418
Tremolite  (*)Amphibole   Ca2(Mg5.0-4.5Fe2+0.0-0.5)Si8O22(OH)211595742562
Wollastonite  (*)WollastoniteCaSiO311595881247


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