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:
Nevada City, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 157
Youngest recorded age at locality: 157

mindat Locality ID: 30500
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-30500.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Nevada City, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA": 126
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 120

Number of Child Localities: 118
Child Localities:
Abegast Placer
Alaska Occurrence
Albert Placer
Alice Belle Mine (Alice Bell)
Allison Mine (Allison Placer Mine)
Alpine Quartz Mine (Alpine Qtz.; Independence/St. Louis; Alpine And Little Done Mine; North Grant Cons.; North Grant Consolidated Mine)
American Hill Mine
Archie Nivens Mine (Glencoe Mine; Glencoe Extension Lode; Gracie Mine; Gracie Quartz Mine; Gracie Glencoe Mine)
Awalrath Quartz Mine (Awalrath Qtz.; Awalrath)
Bavaria Quartz Mine (Bavaria Qtz)
Bayard Taylor Quartz Mine (Bayard Taylor Qtz.; Bayard Taylor)
Bennett Placer
Berlin Consolidated Mine (Berlin Cons.)
Blake Mining Ground Mine (Blake Mng. Ground; Selby Hill)
Blue Rock Mine
Bodie Creek Lode Mine (Bodie Creek Code [mis-spelling ?]; Bodie Creek)
Brock Placer
Caledonia Mine
California Consolidated Quartz Mine (California Consolidated Mine; Calif. Cons'D Qtz; California Mine; Gold Tunnel Mine)
Champion Fraction Lode Mine (Champion)
Champion Mine (Champion Consolidated Quartz Mine; Champion Con Qtz; Champion Fraction Lode)
Chicago Quartz Mine (Chicago Qtz)
Coau Mine
Dean Mine
Deer Creek Mine (Cadmus)
Dodo Quartz Mine (Dodo Qtz.)
Dower Quartz Mine (Dower Mine)
Downie Placer
Eagle Quartz Mine (Eagle Qtz.)
East Home Quartz Mine (East Home Qtz.)
Eddy Gold Quartz Mine (Eddy Gold Qtz.)
Emily Lode Mine (Emily)
Empire Star Group (Empire Star Mines Company Holdings)
Fortune Mine
Fred C. Luetje & Carl E. Schwartz Mine (Fred C Luetje; Carl E Schwartz)
George C. Gaylord Mine (Independence; Grant)
Germany Quartz Mine (Germany Qtz.; Germany Mine)
Globe Mine (Round Mountain Champion)
Gold Flat Quartz Mine (Gold Flat Qtz; Michigan Group; Gold Flat/Mohigan Group; Michigan Mine; Mohigan Mine; Potosi Mine)
Gold Hill Mine (Nevada City Mine)
Gold Metal Mine
Golden Gate Mine (Golden Eagle; Lincoln; Mehagan; St. Anthony)
Good Enough No. 1 And No. 2 Claims (Good Enough 1 And 2 Claims)
Goodman Head & Company Placer (Goodman Head & Co.; Goodman Head And Co.)
Gravel Hill Placer
Grover Placer Mines
Guild Occurrence
Harmony Company Placer (Harmony Co.; East Harmony Mine)
Hartford Placer
Henry Layton Claim
Herring Placer
Hiralhman Placer (Gravel)
Hirschman & Grover Mine (Murphy & Grover; Hershan & Grover Mine)
Hooper Prospect (A. E. Hooper)
Kansas Mine
Knickerbocker Placer
Lasuetre Mine (La Sutre)
Little Turk Mine (Little Task ?)
Manhattan Mine
Manzanita Placer Mine (Manzanita Mining Co. Property)
Mayflower Mine (Enterprise Mine; Kellogg; Backman/Greenman/Sandoe; Little Wolf/Red Rose/Enterprise; Alaska/Hickson/Nute/Richards; Wisconsin Claims)
McCauley Quartz Mine (McCauley Qtz.)
Merrifield Mine
Merrifield Property
Mineral King Mine
Mount Auburn Mine
Mountaineer Mine
Muller & Wallings Consolidated Mine (Muller & Wallings Con; West Wyoming; North Star)
Nebraska Mine
Nevada Gold Quartz Mine (Nevada Gold Qtz.)
Nevins Mine
New Mohawk Consolidated Mine (New Mohawk Cons)
New Pittsburg Mine
New Years & Climax Mine
Norridge Wock Quartz Mine (Norridge Wock Qtz.; Norridgewock)
North Extension Pittsburg Quartz Mine (No. Ext. Pittsburg Qtz.)
North Gold Hill Vein
North Grant Consolidated Mine (North Grant Cons.)
Nute Placer
O.K. & Gold Bar Mine (O.K. And Gold Bar)
Odin Mine (Odin Drift Mine)
Orleans Consolidated Quartz Mine (Orleans Cons Qtz; Orleans Consolidated; Orleans No. 3 Lode)
Orleans No. 3 Quartz Mine (Orleans No. 3 Qtz)
Oustomah Mine (Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania & Eddy)
Pennsylvania Mine [2] (Pennsylvania Quartz Mine; Pennsylvania Qtz.)
Perserverance & Live Yankee Quartz Mine (Perserverance & Live Yankee Qtz; Perserverance Mine)
Pittsburg Gold Quartz Mine (Pittsburg Gold Qtz; Pittsburg Mine; Pittsburgh Mine; Pittsburg Group)
Plumas Nevada Quartz Mine (Plumas Nevada Qtz.; Plumas Nevada Mine)
Providence Gold Quartz Mine (Providence Gold Qtz; Providence Mine)
Red Hill Mine
Red Rose Mine
Reward Consolidated Quartz Mine (Reward Con. Qtz.; Reward Mine)
Richard W. Tulley Claim
Richards Placer
San Jose Placer
San Juan Mine
Schmidt Quartz Mine (Schmidt Qtz.)
Sharp Mining Company Mine (Sharp Mng. Co.)
Sherman Ranch Occurrence (Hoeft Lease [1918])
Sneath & Clay Quartz Mine (Sneath & Clay Qtz; Sweath Clay Mine; Sneath And Clay; Phoenix)
South Yuba Canal Company Claim (So Yuba Canal Co; So. Yuba Canal Co. Claim)
Tam Quartz Mine (Tam Qtz.; Tam Mine)
Taylor Mine (Success; New Defiance/C And D Lodes)
Texas Mine (New York Mine)
Thomas Gold Quartz Mine (Thomas Gold Qtz.; Silgo; New England)
Tipperary Lode Mine (Tipperary Mine)
Unnamed Magnesite Occurrence [2]
Ural Fraction Code Mine (Ural; Ural Qtz.)
Ural Quartz Mine (Ural Qtz.; Ural; Ural Fraction Code)
Victory Placer
Waite Property (White Occurrence; White Estate Mine)
West Harmony Mine
West Providence Quartz Mine (West Providence Qtz.)
Williams Placer
Woodville Placer
Wyoming Fraction Lode Mine
Wyoming Quartz Mine (Wyoming Mine; Wyoming Qtz.)
Young Mack And Old Mack Lode (Young Mack & Old Mack Lode)

Latitude: 39°15'30"N
Longitude: 121°1'18"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.258333333333,-121.02166666667

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.

Arsenic	Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Garnet	Molybdenite
Nickeline	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite
Zircon

Altaite ()*	Alunogen ()*	Andradite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bismuth ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Cinnabar ()*	Copper ()*
Diopside ()*	Enstatite ()*	Epidote ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Galena ()*
Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnesite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Siderite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Stibnite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 As Au Bi C Ca Cr Cu Fe H Hg Mg Mo O Pb S Sb Si Te Ti Zn Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca Fe H Mg Mo O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenic Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Garnet Molybdenite
Nickeline None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite
Zircon

27 IMA Minerals at location:

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
Altaite ()*	Rocksalt	PbTe			3	165941,166015,166016	489
Alunogen ()*	Not in a structural group	Al₂(SO₄)₃(H₂O)₁₂·5H₂O			1	166015	272
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃			1	166035	1534
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			1	166016	9052
Bismuth ()*	Arsenic	Bi			1	166015	1966
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			3	166013,166016,166035	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			5	165926,165944,165962,165993,166016	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	157	157	4	165977,165990,166026,166038	3902
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS			1	166007	2600
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu			1	166007	3846
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	157	157	0		4135
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	157	157	0		944
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)			1	165983	8173
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O	157	157	0		345
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			12	165925,165926,165962,165984,165992,165993,165999,166010,166015,166016,166035,166044	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			96	165923,165924,165925,165926,165928,165929,165930,165931,165933,165934,165935,165936,165939,165940,165941,165942,165943,165944,165945,165946,165947,165948,165950,165951,165952,165953,165955,165957,165958,165959,165960,165961,165962,165963,165964,165965,165968,165969,165971,165976,165978,165979,165980,165981,165982,165983,165984,165986,165987,165988,165989,165991,165992,165993,165994,165995,165996,165997,165998,165999,166000,166001,166002,166003,166004,166006,166007,166008,166009,166010,166011,166012,166013,166014,166015,166016,166017,166018,166019,166023,166024,166025,166027,166029,166030,166031,166032,166033,166035,166036,166037,166039,166040,166043,166044,166045	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃			1	165983	5433
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)			1	166034	1487
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄			1	165983	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			2	165984,166016	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			13	165925,165926,165944,165962,165983,165992,165993,165999,166010,166011,166015,166016,166044	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			1	166035	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			78	165925,165926,165928,165929,165930,165931,165933,165934,165935,165936,165939,165940,165942,165943,165946,165947,165948,165950,165951,165952,165953,165955,165957,165958,165959,165960,165961,165962,165964,165965,165976,165980,165981,165982,165983,165984,165986,165987,165989,165991,165992,165993,165994,165996,165998,165999,166000,166001,166002,166003,166004,166006,166008,166009,166010,166011,166012,166013,166014,166015,166016,166017,166018,166019,166024,166025,166027,166029,166030,166031,166032,166033,166035,166036,166040,166043,166044,166045	61156
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)			2	165983,166013	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS			7	165925,165926,165962,165984,165993,166010,166016	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃			1	165926	3418
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)			1	165983	5251

2 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	podchrome-00168	157	157	Middle Jurassic										Cr	84405	Merrifield Property, Nevada City, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA	Merrifield Property	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157
	podchrome-00167	157	157	Middle Jurassic										Cr	84710	Sherman Ranch Occurrence (Hoeft Lease [1918]), Nevada City, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA	Sherman Ranch	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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