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:
Dos Palmas District, Orocopia Mts (Dos Palmas Mts), Riverside Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 295015
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-295015.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Dos Palmas District, Orocopia Mts (Dos Palmas Mts), Riverside Co., California, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
Big Bullet Manganese Claims (Big Bullett Deposit; Big Bullett Claims)
Chiriaco Summit (Shaver Summit)
Dos Palmas Group Of Claims (Gold Prospects Near Dos Palmas)
Fish Mine
Goat Claims (Tunnel Claim)
Orocopia Canyon
Orocopia Mine (Oro Copia Mine; Dos Palmas Mine; Fish Mine; Fish Deposit; Black Jack Claim)
Pinkham Prospect
Sterling Mine
Unnamed Clay Prospect [1]

Latitude: 33°34'40"N
Longitude: 115°44'12"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.577777777778,-115.73666666667

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.

Aragonite	Calcite	Clay	Copper	Fluorite	Garnet	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt
Rutile	Scheelite	Talc

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 Au C Ca F Fe H Mg Mn Mo N Na O Pb S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite Clay Copper Fluorite Garnet None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt
Rutile Scheelite Talc

11 IMA Minerals at location:

Cerussite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*	Nitratine ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrolusite ()*	Quartz ()*	Spessartine ()*	Talc ()*
Wulfenite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	169428	4979
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	169430	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	169428	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	2	169437,169439	30554
Nitratine ()*	Calcite	Na(NO₃)	1	169425	91
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	169437	39462
Pyrolusite ()*	Rutile	MnO₂	1	169425	3106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	4	169425,169429,169436,169439	61156
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	169425	1214
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	169435	3337
Wulfenite ()*	Scheelite	PbMoO₄	1	169439	1655

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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