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Locality Name:
Midland, Little Maria Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 275951
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-275951.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Midland, Little Maria Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA": 21
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Allen Placers (Allen Claim; Allen Group Placers; Victor Claim; Riverside Claim)
Arentz-Perkins Occurrence
Big Horn Mine (Big Horn Group)
Brown Mine [2]
Dale 3-X Brown Mine
Garbutt & Orcutt Deposit (Carbutt & Orcutt Deposit; Standard Gypsum Claims)
Langdon Mine (Langdon Deposit; Maybery And Brown; Dioxide Group; Hauser-Martin-Cheeseborough; Arentz-Perkins)
Little Maria Mountains Wollastonite Deposit
Lucky Boy Mine [2] (Paddy Faulkner Claim)
Maria Mountain Deposits (Maria Mtns Deposit)
Midland Mine (Midland Deposits; Superior Gypsum Pit)
Mountain King Occurrence
Red Bluff Fluorspar Deposit (Red Bluff Deposit)
Red Ocher Deposit
Unnamed Fluorspar Occurrence [1]
Unnamed Wollastonite Occurrence [1]
Western States Stone Quarry
Whitecap Limestone Nos. 1 And 2 (Whitecap Limestone #1 & #2)

Latitude: 33°51'11"N
Longitude: 114°49'55"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.853055555556,-114.83194444444

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	Amphibole	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Corundum	Epidote	Fluorite	Garnet
Gypsum	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rutile	Scheelite
Spinel	Wollastonite

Andradite ()*	Anhydrite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*
Chrysocolla ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Manganite ()*	Phlogopite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodochrosite ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Scheelite ()*
Tremolite ()*	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 Cu F Fe H K Mg Mn O S Si W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amphibole Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Corundum Epidote Fluorite Garnet
Gypsum Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Rutile Scheelite
Spinel Wollastonite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	1	169222	1534
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	169230	1588
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	169222	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	169226	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	1	169222	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	3	169222,169235,169236	3531
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	169222	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	3	169224,169235,169237	9617
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	5	169225,169226,169228,169229,169230	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	169226,169236	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	169236	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	2	169222,169234	12537
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	1	169226	770
Phlogopite ()*	Mica Clay	KMg₃(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₂	1	169230	2273
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	169235	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	2	169226,169228	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	169222	61156
Rhodochrosite ()*	Calcite	Mn(CO₃)	1	169226	1711
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	169222	969
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	169236	4894
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	169230	2562
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	2	169227,169238	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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