Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Calico, Calico District (Daggett District; Calico-Daggett Area), Calico Mts (Calico Hills), San Bernardino Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 27561
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-27561.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Calico, Calico District (Daggett District; Calico-Daggett Area), Calico Mts (Calico Hills), San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 95
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 91

Number of Child Localities: 85
Child Localities:
Alabama-Mountain View-Snowbird Group Prospect (Alabama-Mountain View-Snowbird Gp.; Alabama Mine)
American Borax Mine (American Borax Company Mine; Owens Borax Mine; Owens Mine; Columbian Mine)
Argentum Mine (Argentum Group)
Back Door No. 1 Mine
Baltic Mine
Bomber Moon Clay Prospect (Bomber Moon Mine)
Burcham Mine (Total Wreck Mine; Burcham Vein; Mulcahy Vein)
Calico Mine
Calico Mountains Mine (Unnamed Prospect)
Calico-Odessa Group
Carbonate Prospect (Carbonate Group)
Cisco Mine
Consolidated Prospect (St. Louis Mine; St. Louis Consolidated Mine; Consolidated Extension Mine)
Cuba Mine
Dietzman Mine (Dietzman Group)
Dusty Rose Quarry [1]
Falls Mine (Falls Prospect; Sue Mine; Sioux Mine)
Gale Group
Galena King Prospect (Galena King Mine; Revier Mine)
Grant Mine
Gunn Mine
Jackhammer Zeolite Prospect
Lake Mine
Lamar Mine (Lamar Prospect)
Langtry Mine (Langtry Lode)
Le Mountain Mine
Leviathan Mine
Lone Mountain Wollastonite Occurrence
Lone Star Group (Lode Star)
Mint Green Quarry (Calico Rock Plant Quarry)
Mulcahy Lead-Silver Prospect (Mulcahy Group)
Mule Canyon
Owen's Mine
Pacific Mine (Pacific Coast Borax Company Properties; Borate; Borate Colemanite Mines; Calico; Old Borate; Pacific Coast Borax Co. Workings)
Peanut Zeolite Prospect (Peanut Prospect; Peanute Prospect)
Possibility Prospect (Prosperity)
Puertas Negras Mine
Rhyolite Quarry
Ross Mine (Ross Deposit; Barstow Mine; T.G. Nicklin)
Runover Mine
Section 33 Mine (Unnamed Prospect)
Shining Dawn Mine
Silver Bow Mine
Silver Contact Mine
Silver King Mine (Silver King-Oriental; Oriental; Wall Street Claim; Oregon Claim; Red Jacket; Red Cloud Claim; Red Cloud Mine; Burning Moscow Mine; Joseph Claim)
Silver Monument Mine
Silver Spar Mine
Silver Tip Mine
Silverado Mine
Sulphur Hole (Sulfur Hole; Sulphur Pit)
Union Mine
Unnamed Ag-Au Prospect [7]
Unnamed Ag-Au-Cu Prospect [1] (Unnamed Shaft Prospect)
Unnamed Ag-Cu-Pb Prospect [1]
Unnamed As Prospect [2]
Unnamed Au Mine [240]
Unnamed Au Prospect [137]
Unnamed Au Prospect [187]
Unnamed Au Prospect [269] (Unnamed Adit)
Unnamed Au Prospect [88]
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [48]
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [84]
Unnamed Borate Prospect [2]
Unnamed Borate Prospect [3]
Unnamed Clay Prospect [12]
Unnamed Clay Prospect [15]
Unnamed Clay Prospect [2]
Unnamed Clay Prospect [6]
Unnamed Gemstone Prospect [1]
Unnamed Magnesite Prospect [5]
Unnamed Ni Prospect [1]
Unnamed Pb-Au Prospect [1]
Unnamed Quartz Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Rhyolite Prospect [1]
Unnamed Sericite Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Silica Occurrence [3] (Unnamed Quartz Occurrence)
Unnamed Stone Quarry [1]
Unnamed Stone Quarry [5]
Unnamed W Prospect [10]
Unnamed Wollastonite Occurrence [2]
Unnamed Wollastonite Occurrence [3]
Voca Mine
Waterloo Mine
Western Minerals Mine
Wolley Wollastonite Quarry (Wooley Quarry)

Latitude: 34°59'26"N
Longitude: 116°51'11"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.990555555556,-116.85305555556

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.

Allophane	Alum	Alunite	Aragonite	Baryte	Boracite	Botryogen	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay
Copiapite	Coquimbite	Gadolinite	Garnet	Gypsum	Halotrichite	Malachite	Marcasite	Melanterite	Metavoltine
Mica	Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rhabdophane	Rocksalt	Römerite
Scheelite	Sepiolite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Sulphur	Titanite	Vivianite	Voltaite	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: Ag Al As B Ba C Ca Cl Co Cr Cu Fe H K Mg Mn Mo Na Ni O Pb S Si Sr Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Cu H O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Alum Alunite Aragonite Baryte Boracite Botryogen Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay
Copiapite Coquimbite Gadolinite Garnet Gypsum Halotrichite Malachite Marcasite Melanterite Metavoltine
Mica Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rhabdophane Rocksalt Römerite
Scheelite Sepiolite Sphalerite Spinel Sulphur Titanite Vivianite Voltaite Wollastonite

52 IMA Minerals at location:

Alum-(K) ()*	Alunite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Annabergite ()*	Asbolane ()*
Baryte ()*	Bassanite ()*	Boracite ()*	Borax ()*	Botryogen ()*
Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chlorargyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Colemanite ()*	Copiapite ()*	Coquimbite ()*	Datolite ()*
Diopside ()*	Fibroferrite ()*	Galena ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halotrichite ()*
Howlite ()*	Jarosite ()*	Krausite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Marcasite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Metavoltine ()*	Muscovite ()*
Nickeline ()*	Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Quartz ()*	Quenstedtite ()*	Römerite ()*
Scorodite ()*	Sepiolite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stromeyerite ()*	Strontianite ()*
Sulphur ()*	Titanite ()*	Ulexite ()*	Uvarovite ()*	Voltaite ()*
Wollastonite ()*	Wulfenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Alum-(K) ()*	Alum	KAl(SO₄)₂·12H₂O	1	171011	92
Alunite ()*	None	KAl₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	171011	966
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	171011	1588
Annabergite ()*	Vivianite	Ni₃(AsO₄)₂·8H₂O	1	171032	445
Asbolane ()*	Not in a structural group	Mn⁴⁺(O,OH)₂·(Co,Ni,Mg,Ca)_x(OH)_2x·nH₂O	1	170992	143
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	4	170959,170962,171006,171008	11547
Bassanite ()*	Rhabdophane	Ca(SO₄)·0.5H₂O	1	170992	82
Boracite ()*	Boracite	Mg₃B₇O₁₃Cl	1	170992	57
Borax ()*	None	Na₂B₄O₅(OH)₄·8H₂O	1	170993	76
Botryogen ()*	Botryogen	MgFe³⁺(SO₄)₂(OH)·7H₂O	1	171011	45
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	170992	27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)	3	170954,170992,171000	1252
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	3	170959,170965,170983	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	170959	27198
Chlorargyrite ()*	Rocksalt	AgCl	4	170959,170960,170962,171006	1382
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	2	170959,170983	3531
Colemanite ()*	None	CaB₃O₄(OH)₃·H₂O	1	170992	144
Copiapite ()*	Copiapite	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₄(SO₄)₆(OH)₂·20H₂O	1	171011	382
Coquimbite ()*	Coquimbite	AlFe₃(SO₄)₆(H₂O)₁₂·6H₂O	1	171011	136
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	2	170993,170994	498
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	1	171032	4135
Fibroferrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Fe³⁺(SO₄)(OH)·5H₂O	2	170993,171011	107
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	2	170959,170965	24243
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	3	170990,170992,171011	6890
Halotrichite ()*	Halotrichite	Fe²⁺Al₂(SO₄)₄·22H₂O	1	171011	409
Howlite ()*	None	Ca₂SiB₅O₉(OH)₅	2	170992,170994	36
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	1	171011	2228
Krausite ()*	None	KFe³⁺(SO₄)₂·H₂O	1	171011	21
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	1	171031	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	170981,170991	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	0		12537
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	171011	5674
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	1	171011	915
Metavoltine ()*	Metavoltine	K₂Na₆Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₆O₂(SO₄)₁₂·18H₂O	1	171011	78
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	171036	17380
Nickeline ()*	Nickeline	NiAs	1	171032	633
Gersdorffite-Pa3 ()*	Pyrite	NiAsS	1	171032	767
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	170962,171002,171012,171034	61156
Quenstedtite ()*	Not in a structural group	Fe³⁺₂(SO₄)₃·11H₂O	1	171011	17
Römerite ()*	Römerite	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂(SO₄)₄·14H₂O	1	171011	115
Scorodite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(AsO₄)·2H₂O	1	171011	1153
Sepiolite ()*	Sepiolite Clay	Mg₄Si₆O₁₅(OH)₂·6H₂O	1	170979	241
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	1	170959	21482
Stromeyerite ()*	None	CuAgS	1	171006	332
Strontianite ()*	Aragonite	Sr(CO₃)	3	170993,170995,171000	589
Sulphur ()*	Sulphur	S	1	171011	2045
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	171032	4899
Ulexite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₆(OH)₆·5H₂O	1	170992	160
Uvarovite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Cr₂(SiO₄)₃	1	171032	212
Voltaite ()*	Voltaite	K₂Fe²⁺₅Fe³⁺₃Al(SO₄)₁₂·18H₂O	1	171011	111
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	4	170986,171041,171042,171046	1247
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	170965	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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