Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
San Benito Peak (San Benito Mountain), New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 5.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 3540
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3540.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "San Benito Peak (San Benito Mountain), New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA": 3
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 3

Number of Child Localities: 3
Child Localities:
Perovskite Peak (Perovskite Hill)
Unnamed Asbestos Occurrence [5]
Unnamed Hg Occurrences [3]

Latitude: 36°21'33"N
Longitude: 120°37'37"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.359166666667,-120.62694444444

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.

Amphibole	Apatite	Baddeleyite	Chlorite	Clay	Corundum	Garnet	Mixite	None	Perovskite
Pyroxene	Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Vesuvianite

Agardite-(La) ()*	Andradite ()*	Baddeleyite ()*	Beidellite ()*	Clinochlore ()*
Diopside ()*	Ferro-hornblende ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Perovskite ()*	Pseudomalachite ()*	Rutile ()*	Vesuvianite ()*

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 Ca Cu F Fe H La Mg Na O P Si Ti Zr

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Apatite Baddeleyite Chlorite Clay Corundum Garnet Mixite None Perovskite
Pyroxene Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Vesuvianite

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Agardite-(La) ()*	Mixite	LaCu²⁺₆(AsO₄)₃(OH)₆·3H₂O	5.3	1	170214	33
Andradite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Fe³⁺₂(SiO₄)₃	5.3	1	170214	1534
Baddeleyite ()*	Baddeleyite	ZrO₂	5.3	1	170214	238
Beidellite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3Al₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	5.3	1	170214	85
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	5.3	1	170214	1756
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	5.3	1	170214	4135
Ferro-hornblende ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Fe²⁺₄Al)(Si₇Al)O₂₂(OH)₂	5.3	0		271
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	5.3	1	170214	2740
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	5.3	1	170214	5433
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	5.3	1	170214	14899
Perovskite ()*	Perovskite	CaTiO₃	5.3	1	170214	495
Pseudomalachite ()*	None	Cu₅(PO₄)₂(OH)₄	5.3	1	170214	369
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	5.3	1	170214	5614
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	5.3	1	170214	1395

1 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
	Hg-00045	5.3	0		?-?						Yes		Calomel, Cinnabar, Clearcreekite, Deanesmithite, Edgarbaileyite, Edoylerite, Gianellaite, Hanawaltite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Montroydite, Mosesite, Peterbaylissite, Schuetteite, Szymanskiite, Tedhadleyite, Terlinguaite, Tiemannite, Wattersite, Eglestonite	Hg	6418	New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA	California Mercury Occurrences	Studemeister (1984)	10.1007/BF00199786	MD19_202

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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