Mineral Evolution Database
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Locality Name:
Furnace Spring, Bear Valley District, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 273100
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-273100.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Furnace Spring, Bear Valley District, San Bernardino Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Anchor Minerals & Chemicals Quarry (Victorville Lime Rock Company; Anchor Minerals & Chemicals)
Carriere Limestone Deposit
Echo Prospect [1]
Furnace Placer Nos. 2-8
Gold Point Mine (Golden Chariot Group; Gold Button Mine; Murray; Henshaw)
Lucerne Quarry (La Habra Products King 1-6)
Marble Canyon Quarry [2]
Pfizer Claims (Rim Claims; White Rose Placer Claims)
Pine Tree Mine
Sentinel Quarry
Unnamed Au Prospect [1]
Unnamed Au Prospect [147]
Veal Property (King Placer; King Placer Claims)

Latitude: 34°20'39"N
Longitude: 116°56'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.344166666667,-116.94

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: Au O Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNoneQuartz

2 IMA Minerals at location:
Gold  (*)Quartz  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Gold  (*)CopperAu117343530554
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2117343561156



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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