Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mercury Mountain, Old Woman District, Old Woman Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 274233
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-274233.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mercury Mountain, Old Woman District, Old Woman Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Bearon Prospect
Copper King Prospect
Desert Mercury Mine (Bimetallic Mine; Desert Mercury Group)
Enterprise Mine (Blue Eagle Mine; Florence Mine)
Honeyspring Prospect
Margareta No. 1 Prospect
Mercury Mountain Mine (Mercury Mtn Mine; Unnamed Prospect; Unnamed Location)
Red Devil Claim
Tunnel Prospect
Unnamed Ag-Cu Prospect [2]
Unnamed Au-Ag Occurrence [103]
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [19]
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [28]
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [83]
Unnamed Cu Prospect [13]
Unnamed Cu Prospect [54]
Unnamed Pb Prospect [8]
Unnamed Sb Prospect [1]
Unnamed Sb Prospect [2]
Unnamed W Prospect [14]
Wheel Grace Prospect
Wheel Of Fortune Mine

Latitude: 34°37'1"N
Longitude: 115°10'12"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.616944444444,-115.17

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.

Copper	None	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Stibnite

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 H Hg O Pb S Sb Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper None Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Stibnite

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Cinnabar ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Quartz ()*	Stibiconite ()*
Stibnite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	3	172531,172535,172536	2600
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	172532	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	1	172550	30554
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	172536,172550	61156
Stibiconite ()*	Pyrochlore	Sb³⁺Sb⁵⁺₂O₆(OH)	1	172536	446
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	1	172536	3418

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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