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:
Tungsten Hills, West Bishop, Bishop District (Tungsten Hills District), Inyo Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 210
Youngest recorded age at locality: 150.3

mindat Locality ID: 274937
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-274937.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tungsten Hills, West Bishop, Bishop District (Tungsten Hills District), Inyo Co., California, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 11

Number of Child Localities: 11
Child Localities:
Aeroplane Mine (Mesa Mine; Standard Tungsten City Milling Co. Mine; Moonlight Mine)
Buttermilk Mine (Van Loon Prospects; Van Loon; Raindrop Prospect; Van Loen ?)
El Diablo Mine (Lucky Strike Mine; El Diablo Mining Company Property)
Hill Top Mine
Huntley Industrial Minerals Inc. (Tungsten City Milling Company)
Jackrabbit Mine (Jackrabbit Tungsten Mine; Tungsten City Mine)
Little McGee Creek Mine (White Caps Mine)
Little Shot Mine (Brooks)
Little Sister Mine (Tungsten Mines Company)
Tungsten Peak Prospect
Unspecified Garnet Group Occurrences [2]

Latitude: 37°21'9"N
Longitude: 118°31'44"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.3525,-118.52888888889

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.

Calcite	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Epidote	Garnet	None	Not in a structural group	Quartz	Scheelite	Sphalerite
Wollastonite

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 C Ca Fe H Mn O S Si W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite Clinozoisite Columbite Epidote Garnet None Not in a structural group Quartz Scheelite Sphalerite
Wollastonite

12 IMA Minerals at location:

Almandine ()*	Andradite ()*	Calcite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferberite ()*
Grossular ()*	Quartz ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sillimanite ()*	Spessartine ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	210	150.3	2	157214,157222	2353
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	210	150.3	1	157212	1534
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	210	150.3	1	157212	27770
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	210	150.3	4	157212,157214,157218,157222	8173
Ferberite ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺(WO₄)	210	150.3	1	157212	551
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	210	150.3	2	157218,157222	1544
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	210	150.3	3	157212,157214,157218	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	210	150.3	9	157212,157213,157214,157215,157216,157218,157219,157220,157221	4894
Sillimanite ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂SiO₅	210	150.3	1	157220	1516
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	210	150.3	1	157222	1214
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	210	150.3	1	157220	21482
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	210	150.3	1	157212	1247

Locality Notes from all Ages at Locality:

Age ID	Locality Notes
Michelle_469	Quartz monzonite of Tungsten Hills, N of Scheelite (site); Pine Creek See Table A1.

4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Sample Source	Sample Num	Dated Mineral	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
Michelle_469	210	210	210	U-Pb	Preferred intrusive age	zircon	74	Zircon	274937	Tungsten Hills, West Bishop, Bishop District (Tungsten Hills District), Inyo Co., California, USA	Tungsten Hills	Chen and Moore (1982)	10.1029/JB087iB06p04761	AJS299_93	See p. 4768, Table 2. Age group T (Triassic 195-225 ma).
NAVDAT-14955	150.6	150.3	150.45±0.15				14955		78988	Jackrabbit Mine (Jackrabbit Tungsten Mine; Tungsten City Mine), Tungsten Hills, West Bishop, Bishop District (Tungsten Hills District), Inyo Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT
NAVDAT-14956	150.6	150.3	150.45±0.15				14956		78988	Jackrabbit Mine (Jackrabbit Tungsten Mine; Tungsten City Mine), Tungsten Hills, West Bishop, Bishop District (Tungsten Hills District), Inyo Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT
NAVDAT-14958	150.6	150.3	150.45±0.15				14958		78988	Jackrabbit Mine (Jackrabbit Tungsten Mine; Tungsten City Mine), Tungsten Hills, West Bishop, Bishop District (Tungsten Hills District), Inyo Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

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