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Locality Name:
Sleeping Beauty, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 22
Youngest recorded age at locality: 17

mindat Locality ID: 274649
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-274649.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Sleeping Beauty, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Andreen Prospect
Old Dominion Mine (Unnamed Prospect)
Paymaster Mine [2]
Preston Mine (Preston Prospect)
Unnamed Baryte Deposit [53]
Unnamed Jasper Occurrence [3]
Unnamed Mn Prospect [7]
Unnamed Sr Occurrence [2] (Southern Pacific Company Property)
Unnamed Sr Prospect [4] (Unnamed Strontianite Prospect)

Latitude: 34°47'14"N
Longitude: 116°15'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.787222222222,-116.25444444444

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: Ba C Ca O S Si Sr 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteBaryteCalciteNoneQuartz

4 IMA Minerals at location:
Baryte  (*)Calcite  (*)Quartz  (*)Strontianite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)2170933,17093411547
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)117093027770
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO22217117093561156
Strontianite  (*)AragoniteSr(CO3)1170938589



4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
NAVDAT-19635221820±2   19635    89230Paymaster Mine [2], Sleeping Beauty, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-58120201718+2/-1   58120    89230Paymaster Mine [2], Sleeping Beauty, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-19660221820±2   19660    89875Unnamed Jasper Occurrence [3], Sleeping Beauty, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-58123201718+2/-1   58123    89875Unnamed Jasper Occurrence [3], Sleeping Beauty, Cady Mts, San Bernardino Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 


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