Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Tip Top Mountain, Baldwin Lake District, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 273028
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-273028.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tip Top Mountain, Baldwin Lake District, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 23
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Dora Dee Placer Mine
Gloria Dee
Golden Eagle Prospect
Gusher Mine
Holliday Prospect
Log Cabin Mine
McClure-Bess Placer Mine
Parker Group
Pay Me Placer Mine
Rattlesnake Canyon Placers
Rose Mine (Rose And Monte Cristo; Christie; Homestake Mine)
Roy Ex Mine
Silver Dream Mine (Tip Top Mine)
Stewart Mine (Jackass)
Unnamed Au Occurrence [273]
Unnamed Au Occurrence [275]
Unnamed Au Occurrence [276]
Unnamed Au Occurrence [279]
Unnamed Au Occurrence [280]
Vaughn Placer

Latitude: 34°14'51"N
Longitude: 116°41'7"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.2475,-116.68527777778

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.

Calcite	Copper	Corundum	Malachite	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite

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 Ca Cu Fe H O Pb S Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Copper Corundum Malachite None Not in a structural group Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite

8 IMA Minerals at location:

Calcite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*
Malachite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	173356,173359	27770
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	2	173356,173359	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	3	173356,173359,173361	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	7	173352,173356,173357,173359,173360,173362,173368	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	173356,173359	14640
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	173356,173359	12537
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	173351,173356,173357,173359,173362	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	173360	4894

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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