Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Clear Creek Area, Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 5.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 27173
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27173.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Clear Creek Area, Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Hernandez
MT Jeanne's Pit No. 2
Unspecified Actinolite Occurrence [1]

Latitude: 0°0'0"N
Longitude: 0°0'0"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 0,0

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.

Amphibole	Clay	Clinozoisite	Epidote	Garnet	Lawsonite	None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rutile
Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Titanite	Zircon

Actinolite ()*	Andradite ()*	Chromite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*
Glaucophane ()*	Jadeite ()*	Lawsonite ()*	Mercury ()*	Montroydite ()*
Omphacite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Titanite ()*	Vermiculite ()*
Zircon ()*

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 Ca Cr Fe H Hg Mg Na O Si Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca Fe H Hg Mg Na O Si Ti Zr

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Clay Clinozoisite Epidote Garnet Lawsonite None Pyroxene Quartz Rutile
Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Titanite Zircon

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	5.3	1	170187	3419
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	5.3	1	170186	1534
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	5.3	1	170185	3902
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	5.3	0		4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	5.3	0		8173
Glaucophane ()*	Amphibole	Na₂(Mg₃Al₂)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	5.3	0		286
Jadeite ()*	Pyroxene	NaAlSi₂O₆	5.3	0		154
Lawsonite ()*	Lawsonite	CaAl₂(Si₂O₇)(OH)₂·H₂O	5.3	0		121
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	5.3	0		397
Montroydite ()*	None	HgO	5.3	0		29
Omphacite ()*	Pyroxene	(Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe,Al)Si₂O₆	5.3	0		229
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5.3	0		61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	5.3	0		5614
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	5.3	1	170186	4899
Vermiculite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄·8H₂O	5.3	0		652
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	5.3	0		5251

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Hg-00045	5.3	0		?-?						Yes		Calomel, Cinnabar, Clearcreekite, Deanesmithite, Edgarbaileyite, Edoylerite, Gianellaite, Hanawaltite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Montroydite, Mosesite, Peterbaylissite, Schuetteite, Szymanskiite, Tedhadleyite, Terlinguaite, Tiemannite, Wattersite, Eglestonite	Hg	6418	New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA	California Mercury Occurrences	Studemeister (1984)	10.1007/BF00199786	MD19_202

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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