Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Camp Pardee, Pardee District, Calaveras Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 281
Youngest recorded age at locality: 100

mindat Locality ID: 189628
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-189628.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Camp Pardee, Pardee District, Calaveras Co., California, USA": 22
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 22

Number of Child Localities: 22
Child Localities:
Burke One Claims
Fields And Stoker Mine (Briggs Lease)
Foothills Pit
Gillam Mine
Glo-Bar Mines
Ingomar Mine (Grey Eagle Mine; Star Claim; Riverside Claim; Grey Eagle Claim; Ingomar Claim; Cora Claim)
Le Clerq Limestone Deposit
Lowry Property (Lowry)
McNamara Deposit
McNamara Mine (McNamara Property)
Neugebauer Mine
Penn Deposit (Plaza)
Plaza Penn Mining Company Property (Eureka)
Snyder Clay Pit
Snyder Quarry
Unknown Au Mine [16]
Unknown Au Mine [17]
Unknown Cu Occurrence [2]
Unnamed Cr Occurrence [5]
Unnamed Cu Occurrence [10]
Ward And Lyons Mine (White Hawk Mining Claim; Red Hawk Mine)
Wildermuth Quarry

Latitude: 38°14'37"N
Longitude: 120°48'59"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 38.243611111111,-120.81638888889

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.

Amorphous	Chlorite	Clay	Copper	Garnet	None	Pyroxene	Quartz	Serpentine	Spinel

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 Au Ca Cr Fe H Mg O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amorphous Chlorite Clay Copper Garnet None Pyroxene Quartz Serpentine Spinel

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Chromite ()*	Chrysotile ()*	Clinochlore ()*	Enstatite ()*	Gold ()*
Magnesiochromite ()*	Opal ()*	Quartz ()*	Uvarovite ()*

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
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	100	100	1	153319	3902
Chrysotile ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	100	100	1	153311	951
Clinochlore ()*	Chlorite Clay	Mg₅Al(AlSi₃O₁₀)(OH)₈	281	100	2	153311,153321	1756
Enstatite ()*	Pyroxene	Mg₂Si₂O₆	100	100	1	153311	944
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	100	100	4	153305,153306,153316,153317	30554
Magnesiochromite ()*	Spinel	MgCr₂O₄	281	100	5	153302,153304,153310,153311,153321	311
Opal ()*	Amorphous	SiO₂·nH₂O	281	281	1	153304	2994
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	100	100	2	153306,153315	61156
Uvarovite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Cr₂(SiO₄)₃	281	281	1	153321	212

4 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Age from other Locality	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
Mo-00156	100	100		Yes	Molybdenite	Mo	16293	Calaveras Co., California, USA	Calaveras County	Brock (1972)	10.1130/0016-7606(1972)83[3391:GOGHSC]2.0.CO;2	GSAB83_3391
podchrome-00072	281	281	Permian (280±3 m.y. 206Pb/238U, 282±3 m.y. 207Pb/235U)			Cr	75201	Fields And Stoker Mine (Briggs Lease), Camp Pardee, Pardee District, Calaveras Co., California, USA	Fields and Stoker	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00071	281	281	Permian (280±3 m.y. 206Pb/238U, 282±3 m.y. 207Pb/235U)			Cr	75256	Gillam Mine, Camp Pardee, Pardee District, Calaveras Co., California, USA	Gillam	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157
podchrome-00073	281	281	Permian (280±3 m.y. 206Pb/238U, 282±3 m.y. 207Pb/235U)			Cr	76184	Ward And Lyons Mine (White Hawk Mining Claim; Red Hawk Mine), Camp Pardee, Pardee District, Calaveras Co., California, USA	Ward and Lyons	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157

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