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Locality Name:
Lights Creek Copper Deposits (Moonlight Mine; Sulfide Ridge Deposits; Lights Canyon Deposits), Moonlight Peak, Taylorsville District, Plumas Copper Belt, Plumas Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 100
Youngest recorded age at locality: 100

mindat Locality ID: 86332
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-86332.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lights Creek Copper Deposits (Moonlight Mine; Sulfide Ridge Deposits; Lights Canyon Deposits), Moonlight Peak, Taylorsville District, Plumas Copper Belt, Plumas Co., California, USA": 4
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 4

Number of Child Localities: 4
Child Localities:
Engles Mine
Lights Creek Placers
Superior Mine
Superior Mine Area

Latitude: 40°12'11"N
Longitude: 120°46'27"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.203055555556,-120.77416666667

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.

Allophane	Amphibole	Analcime	Brochantite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum
Covellite	Cyanotrichite	Enargite	Epidote	Malachite	Mica	Molybdenite	Natrolite	Nickeline	None
Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Stibnite	Tetrahedrite	Thomsonite
Titanite	Wurtzite

Actinolite ()*	Analcime ()*	Azurite ()*	Bornite ()*	Brochantite ()*
Carbonatecyanotrichite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*
Covellite ()*	Enargite ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Jamesonite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Magnetite ()*
Malachite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Natrolite ()*	Prehnite ()*
Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*	Scolecite ()*	Siderite ()*
Sphalerite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Thomsonite-Ca ()*
Titanite ()*

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 C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mo Na O Pb S Sb Si Ti Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Cu Fe H K Mo O Pb S Sb Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amphibole Analcime Brochantite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum
Covellite Cyanotrichite Enargite Epidote Malachite Mica Molybdenite Natrolite Nickeline None
Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Stibnite Tetrahedrite Thomsonite
Titanite Wurtzite

36 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
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	100	100	1	168553	3419
Analcime ()*	Analcime	Na(AlSi₂O₆)·H₂O	100	100	1	168551	1627
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	100	100	1	168551	5509
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	100	100	2	168551,168553	5516
Brochantite ()*	Brochantite	Cu₄(SO₄)(OH)₆	100	100	1	168551	1633
Carbonatecyanotrichite ()*	Cyanotrichite	Cu₄Al₂(CO₃)(OH)₁₂·2H₂O	100	100	1	168551	88
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	100	100	2	168551,168553	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	100	100	2	168551,168553	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	100	100	1	168551	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	100	100	0		3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	100	100	1	168551	4165
Enargite ()*	Enargite Wurtzite	Cu₃AsS₄	100	100	1	168551	910
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	100	100	1	168551	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	100	100	1	168551	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	100	100	1	168552	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	100	100	1	168551	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	100	100	1	168551	5433
Jamesonite ()*	None	Pb₄FeSb₆S₁₄	100	100	0		784
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	100	100	1	168551	1271
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	100	100	1	168551	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	100	100	1	168551	12537
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	100	100	0		5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	100	100	0		17380
Natrolite ()*	Natrolite	Na₂(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·2H₂O	100	100	1	168551	1236
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	100	100	1	168551	1898
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	100	100	1	168553	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	100	100	0		9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	100	100	1	168553	61156
Scolecite ()*	Natrolite	Ca(Si₃Al₂)O₁₀·3H₂O	100	100	1	168551	390
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	100	100	2	168551,168553	6417
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	100	100	1	168553	21482
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	100	100	0		3418
Tennantite-(Fe) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Fe₂)As₄S₁₃	100	100	0		1803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	100	100	2	168551,168553	5317
Thomsonite-Ca ()*	Thomsonite	NaCa₂(Al₅Si₅)O₂₀·6H₂O	100	100	1	168551	452
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	100	100	1	168553	4899

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
	PorphCu-00136	100	100	100									Actinolite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Covellite, Epidote, Galena, Hematite, Jamesonite, Magnetite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Stibnite	Cu	86332	Lights Creek Copper Deposits (Moonlight Mine; Sulfide Ridge Deposits; Lights Canyon Deposits), Moonlight Peak, Taylorsville District, Plumas Copper Belt, Plumas Co., California, USA	Lights Creek	Singer et al. (2008)		USGSOFR2008_1155

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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