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Locality Name:
Rimrock, Morongo District (Lone Valley District), San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 273087
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-273087.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Rimrock, Morongo District (Lone Valley District), San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 40
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 40

Number of Child Localities: 40
Child Localities:
Blackrock Prospect [1]
Desert Wind Prospect
Hobbit Hole Prospect
Jeff Davis Mine
Lost Spanish Mine (Dreamer Group)
Lucky Seven Claim
Old Oasis Prospect
Plata Claims
Sunnyside Mine (Morongo King Mine; Morongo King Vein; Jeff Davis Mine; Livingstone Mine)
Tungsten Prospecting Associates Occurrence (T.P.A. No. 1)
United Tungsten Mine (Shooting Star Mine; United Tungsten Copper Mine; United Tungsten & Gold Eagle Mine; Gold Eagle Mine)
Unnamed Ag Prospect [13]
Unnamed Ag Prospect [14]
Unnamed Ag Prospect [19]
Unnamed Ag Prospect [20]
Unnamed Ag Prospect [21]
Unnamed Ag Prospect [27]
Unnamed Ag Prospect [30]
Unnamed Ag Prospect [35]
Unnamed Ag Prospect [5]
Unnamed Ag Prospect [6]
Unnamed Ag-Au Prospect [10]
Unnamed Ag-Au Prospect [13]
Unnamed Ag-Au Prospect [9]
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [38]
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [46]
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [62]
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [64]
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [77]
Unnamed Mica Occurrence [2]
Unnamed Mica Occurrence [2a]
Unnamed U Occurrence [5]
Unnamed U Prospect [13]
Unnamed U Prospect [15]
Unnamed U Prospect [16]
Unnamed U Prospect [27]
Unnamed U Prospect [28]
Unnamed U Prospect [29]
Unnamed U Prospect [31]
Unnamed U Prospect [37]

Latitude: 34°15'54"N
Longitude: 116°35'36"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.265,-116.59333333333

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 Ba Bi C Ca Fe H K Mg O Pb S Si W 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteBaryteBismutiteClayClinozoisiteEpidoteMicaNoneQuartzRocksalt
ScheeliteStibnite

9 IMA Minerals at location:
Baryte  (*)Bismuthinite  (*)Bismutite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Epidote  (*)
Galena  (*)Phlogopite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)117356111547
Bismuthinite  (*)StibniteBi2S311735621935
Bismutite  (*)BismutiteBi2O2(CO3)1173562716
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)11735564979
Epidote  (*)Epidote ClinozoisiteCa2(Al2Fe3+)[Si2O7][SiO4]O(OH)11735628173
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2173555,17355624243
Phlogopite  (*)Mica ClayKMg3(AlSi3O10)(OH)211735822273
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO23173555,173560,17356261156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)3173560,173561,1735624894



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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