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Locality Name:
Nuevo, Lakeview Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 30264
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-30264.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nuevo, Lakeview Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA": 14
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Brown Feldspar & Silica Prospect
Juniper Flats
La Borde Deposit
Morgan Ranch Occurrence
Patterson Claim
Ritchie & Paulson
Riverside Portland Cement Company Mine
Southern Pacific Silica Quarry (Southern Pacific Deposit; Nuevo Mine; Southern Pacific Quarry; S.P. Silica Quarry; S.P. Mine; Nuevo Quarry)
Tully Deposit
Unnamed Pegmatite Occurrence [3]
Warren Deposit
Wier Feldspar Prospect

Latitude: 33°47'29"N
Longitude: 117°6'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.791388888889,-117.10388888889
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 B Be Ca Ce Fe H K Mn Na Nb O P Si Th Ti U Y Zr 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
BerylColumbiteCorundumFeldsparGarnetMonaziteMordeniteNoneQuartzSpinel
TourmalineZircon

14 IMA Minerals at location:
Beryl  (*)Epistilbite  (*)Hematite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Microcline  (*)
Monazite-(Ce)  (*)Orthoclase  (*)Quartz  (*)Samarskite-(Y)  (*)Schorl  (*)
Spessartine  (*)Xenotime-(Y)  (*)Yttrocrasite-(Y)  (*)Zircon  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Beryl  (*)BerylBe3Al2Si6O1811692094286
Epistilbite  (*)MordeniteCa3[Si18Al6O48]·16H2O1169209138
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3116920914640
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4116920914899
Microcline  (*)FeldsparK(AlSi3O8)11692094924
Monazite-(Ce)  (*)MonaziteCe(PO4)1169209945
Orthoclase  (*)FeldsparK(AlSi3O8)11692092349
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2116920961156
Samarskite-(Y)  (*)ColumbiteYFe3+Nb2O81169209353
Schorl  (*)TourmalineNaFe2+3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)11692092705
Spessartine  (*)GarnetMn2+3Al2(SiO4)311692091214
Xenotime-(Y)  (*)ZirconY(PO4)1169209939
Yttrocrasite-(Y)  (*)Columbite(Y,Th,Ca,U)(Ti,Fe)2(O,OH)611692098
Zircon  (*)ZirconZr(SiO4)11692095251


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