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:
Hector, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 0.1
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0.025

mindat Locality ID: 88702
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-88702.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Hector, San Bernardino Co., California, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Brown Occurrence
Fort Cady Deposit (Fort Cady Solution Mine; Fort Cady Project)
Heather Pumice Prospect
Henz Bentonite Prospect
Newberry Hectorite Mine (Inerto Bentonite; Inerto Company Deposit; National Lead Mine)
North Group Of Claims
Unnamed Mn Occurrence [9]
Unnamed Stone Quarry [2] (Unnamed Site Mine)

Latitude: 34°47'41"N
Longitude: 116°27'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 34.794722222222,-116.45777777778

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	Baryte	Calcite	Clay	Gypsum	Heulandite	None	Not in a structural group	Rocksalt	Smectite-vermiculite
Talc

Anhydrite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Calcite ()*	Celestine ()*	Clinoptilolite-Na ()*
Colemanite ()*	Gypsum ()*	Halite ()*	Hectorite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*
Saponite ()*	Talc ()*	Trona ()*

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 B C Ca Cl F Fe H Li Mg Na O S Si Sr

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

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Aragonite Baryte Calcite Clay Gypsum Heulandite None Not in a structural group Rocksalt Smectite-vermiculite
Talc

13 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
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)			1	171793	1588
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	0.1	0.025	0		3250
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	0.1	0.025	0		27770
Celestine ()*	Baryte	Sr(SO₄)			1	171793	1252
Clinoptilolite-Na ()*	Heulandite	Na₆(Si₃₀Al₆)O₇₂·20H₂O	0.1	0.025	0		24
Colemanite ()*	None	CaB₃O₄(OH)₃·H₂O			1	171793	144
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O			1	171793	6890
Halite ()*	Rocksalt	NaCl			1	171793	1398
Hectorite ()*	Clay	Na_0.3(Mg,Li)₃Si₄O₁₀(F,OH)₂·nH₂O	0.1	0.025	2	171796,171797	19
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O			2	171795,171797	1508
Saponite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Ca,Na)_0.3(Mg,Fe)₃(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₂·4H₂O			1	171797	301
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂			1	171792	3337
Trona ()*	None	Na₃(HCO₃)(CO₃)·2H₂O			1	171793	129

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
	NAVDAT-29249	0.1	0.025	0.0375+0.0625/-0.0125					29249						89129	Newberry Hectorite Mine (Inerto Bentonite; Inerto Company Deposit; National Lead Mine), Hector, San Bernardino Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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