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Locality Name:
Kelseyville, Lake Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 0.52
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0.42

mindat Locality ID: 31722
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-31722.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kelseyville, Lake Co., California, USA": 10
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 9

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Auschwitz Property
Baxter Mine
Baxter Prospect (G. L. Hildebrand)
Immel Property
Konocti Bay
Lucitta Mine
T-B-M Prospect (T.B.M. Prospect)
Unnamed Fluorite Occurrence
Unnamed Stone Occurrence (10)

Latitude: 38°56'5"N
Longitude: 122°47'46"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.934722222222,-122.79611111111

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: Ca Cu F Fe Hg S 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
FluoriteNoneSulphur

4 IMA Minerals at location:
Bornite  (*)Cinnabar  (*)Fluorite  (*)Sulphur  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Bornite  (*)NoneCu5FeS411606145516
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS11606082600
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF211606159617
Sulphur  (*)SulphurS11606072045



3 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel IDMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)Age as listed in referenceDating MethodAge InterpretPrioritized?Sample SourceSample NumRun NumAge from other LocalityDated MineralMinerals explicitely stated as having this ageAge applies to these ElementsMinDat Locality IDDated Locality (Max Age)Location as listed in referenceReferenceReference DOIReference IDAge Notes
NAVDAT-1303670.460.420.44±0.02   130367    80830Immel Property, Kelseyville, Lake Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-1303680.470.430.45±0.02   130368    229518Konocti Bay, Kelseyville, Lake Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 
NAVDAT-1303730.520.480.5±0.02   130373    80908Unnamed Stone Occurrence (10), Kelseyville, Lake Co., California, USA NAVDAT NAVDAT 


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