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:
Silver Peak [1], Blackhawk District (Silver Reef District), San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 273099
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-273099.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Silver Peak [1], Blackhawk District (Silver Reef District), San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Akron-Silver Reef Deposit
Arlington And Black Hawk Deposit (Black Hawk Mountains)
Aviation Mine
Blackhawk Property
Blue Boy Quarry (Blue Boy Nos. 1 And 5)
Cactus Flat Mine (Morongo Mine)
Hill Top Mine (Hilltop Mine)
Little Joe Occurrence
Mohawk Group (Nigger Mountain Mine; Fremont Mine)
Santa Fe Mines (Black Hawk; Santa Fe; Lady Alice; Cliff; Lookout And Opera; Arlington; Calumet; Calle De Oro; Hecla)
Silver Peak Mine
Unnamed Au Occurrence [10]
Unnamed Au Occurrence [14]
Unnamed Pb-Mo Occurrence [1]
Vida Prospect (White Mountain)

Latitude: 34°20'57"N
Longitude: 116°48'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.349166666667,-116.80388888889

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.

Aragonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Corundum	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Sphalerite

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 Br C Ca Cl Cu Fe Mg Mo O Pb S Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Corundum None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Sphalerite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Bromargyrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Galena ()*	Hematite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Bromargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgBr	1	173467	227
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	173476	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	2	173472,173475	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	173475	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	1	173467	1382
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	1	173476	9895
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	173472,173475	24243
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	173472,173476	14640
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	173475	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	173473,173476	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	173475	21482
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	173480	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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