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:
Mitchel Range, Barstow District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 289654
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-289654.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mitchel Range, Barstow District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 15
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 15
Child Localities:
Barium Queen Mine
Desert King Mine
Union Prospect
Unnamed Au Prospect [189]
Unnamed Au Prospect [205]
Unnamed Baryte Occurrence [52]
Unnamed Baryte Prospect [55] (Unnamed Adit)
Unnamed Baryte Prospect [58] (Unnamed Adit)
Unnamed Baryte-Ag Prospect [2]
Unnamed Baryte-Zn Prospect [1]
Unnamed Baryte-Zn-Ag Prospect [1]
Unnamed Fe Location [13]
Unnamed Gemstone Location [13]
Unnamed Stone Quarry [18]
Unnamed Zn-Baryte Prospect [1] (Unnamed Adit)

Latitude: 34°56'18"N
Longitude: 116°59'27"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.938333333333,-116.99083333333

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.

Baryte	None	Quartz

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 O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Baryte None Quartz

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Baryte ()*	Quartz ()*

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
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)			8	170593,170598,170599,170600,170601,170602,170603,170607	11547
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			3	170593,170594,170595	61156

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
X050028	Barium Queen Mine, Mitchel Range, Barstow District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/X050028
X050105	Barium Queen Mine, Mitchel Range, Barstow District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/X050105

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