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:
Resting Spring Range, Inyo Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 79350
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-79350.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Resting Spring Range, Inyo Co., California, USA": 32
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 30

Number of Child Localities: 16
Child Localities:
Baxter Mine (Jack Baxter)
Gerstley II Mine
Gerstley Mine (Gerstley I; Gerstley Pit; Kern Company Land Company)
High Chicago Mine
Red Wing Mine
Resting Springs
Shadow Mountain
Unnamed Au-Ag Prospect [2]
Unnamed Cu Prospect [13]
Unnamed Magnesite Prospect [1]
Unnamed Quartzite Occurrence [2] (Silica Occurrence)
Unnamed Silica Occurrence [2]
Unnamed Sr-B-borate Occurrence [1] (Unnamed Evaporite Occurrence)
Unnamed Zeolite Occurrence [4]
Unnamed Zeolite Occurrence [8]
Unnamed Zeolite Occurrence [9]

Latitude: 36°4'20"N
Longitude: 116°13'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.072222222222,-116.22388888889

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.

Aragonite	Calcite	None	Rocksalt

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: B C Ca H Mg Na O Pb S Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Calcite None Rocksalt

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Borax ()*	Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Colemanite ()*	Galena ()*
Magnesite ()*	Probertite ()*	Smithsonite ()*	Ulexite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Borax ()*	None	Na₂B₄O₅(OH)₄·8H₂O	1	158898	76
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	158894,158895,158913	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	158897	4979
Colemanite ()*	None	CaB₃O₄(OH)₃·H₂O	2	158894,158895	144
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	158897	24243
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	1	158918	1487
Probertite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₇(OH)₄·3H₂O	1	158895	29
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	1	158897	2473
Ulexite ()*	None	NaCaB₅O₆(OH)₆·5H₂O	2	158894,158895	160

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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