Mineral Evolution Database

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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:
San Jacinto Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 57576
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-57576.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "San Jacinto Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA": 58
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 49

Number of Child Localities: 9
Child Localities:
Butterfly Peak
Eden Hot Springs
Idyllwild
Mount Edna
Palm Desert
Pine Cove
Pinyon Pines
San Jacinto Peak (San Jacinto Mountain)
Soboba Hot Springs (Ritchey Hot Springs; White Sulphur Spring)

Latitude: 33°45'51"N
Longitude: 116°44'42"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.764166666667,-116.745

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	Andalusite	Calcite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Epidote	Feldspar	Garnet
Marcasite	Mica	None	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rhodonite	Scheelite	Titanite	Wollastonite

Andalusite ()*	Calcite ()*	Corundum ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*
Graphite ()*	Grossular ()*	Marcasite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*
Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodonite ()*	Scheelite ()*	Silver ()*
Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

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: Ag Al C Ca Fe H K Mg Mn O S Si Ti W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Andalusite Calcite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Epidote Feldspar Garnet
Marcasite Mica None Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz Rhodonite Scheelite Titanite Wollastonite

18 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	169825	1310
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	169850,169853,169857	27770
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	2	169853,169857	1797
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	3	169850,169853,169857	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	169828,169844	8173
Graphite ()*	None	C	1	169856	2812
Grossular ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	1	169857	1544
Marcasite ()*	Marcasite	FeS₂	1	169807	5674
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	3	169849,169853,169857	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2	169853,169857	2349
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	1	169807	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	5	169804,169823,169850,169853,169857	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	169803	969
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	3	169828,169844,169850	4894
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	1	169807	5186
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	169832	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	169837	2562
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	2	169853,169857	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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