Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Friant, Fresno Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 9724
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-9724.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Friant, Fresno Co., California, USA": 9
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Ball Ranch Placer Mine (Rockfield)
Bent Company & Griffith Company Placer Mine
Fort Miller Ranch Deposit
Friant Dam Aggregate Deposit Mine
Hopkins & Becker Placer Mine
Painter Mine (Mc Kinsey)
San Joaquin River
Unspecified Ti Occurrence [1]

Latitude: 36°58'0"N
Longitude: 119°43'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.966666666667,-119.7225

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.

Clay	Copper	Corundum	Melonite	None	Pyrite	Rutile	Talc

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: As Au Bi Fe H Mg O Pt Si Te Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Clay Copper Corundum Melonite None Pyrite Rutile Talc

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Gold ()*	Ilmenite ()*	Moncheite ()*	Rutile ()*	Sperrylite ()*
Talc ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	155810,155811,155813,155814	30554
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	155818	5433
Moncheite ()*	Melonite	Pt(Te,Bi)₂	1	155817	133
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	155818	5614
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	1	155817	337
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	155815	3337

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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