Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Yuba Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 204
Youngest recorded age at locality: 150

mindat Locality ID: 209189
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-209189.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Yuba Co., California, USA": 202
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 157

Number of Child Localities: 27
Child Localities:
Baker Ranch
Beale Air Force Base
Browns Valley District
Buzzard Peak
Camptonville District
Celestial Valley
Dobbins Area
Dobbins District
Eagleville
Emory Island
Forbestown District
Frenchtown
Hammonton Area
Hammonton District (Yuba River District; Yuba Gold Field; Yuba Dredge Field; Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields)
Howard Hill
Loma Rica
North Star
Olivehurst
Rackerby
Red Lodge Mine
Sharon Valley
Sicard Flat
Smartville District
Strawberry Valley
Waldo Junction
Wheatland
Yuba River Cr Occurrences

Latitude: 39°19'29"N
Longitude: 121°15'50"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.324722222222,-121.26388888889

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.

Arsenopyrite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Garnet	Melonite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rhodonite	Scheelite	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite	Ullmannite
Vivianite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Bavenite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*
Cuprite ()*	Ferrimolybdite ()*	Gold ()*	Hollingworthite ()*	Iridium ()*
Laurite ()*	Magnesiochromite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Osmium ()*
Palladium ()*	Platinum ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*	Quartz ()*
Rhodonite ()*	Rutheniridosmine ()*	Ruthenium ()*	Scheelite ()*	Sphalerite ()*
Sylvanite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Uvarovite ()*	Vivianite ()*

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: Ag Al As Au Be C Ca Cr Cu Fe H Ir K Mg Mn Mo O Os P Pd Pt Rh Ru S Sb Si Te W Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Garnet Melonite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rhodonite Scheelite Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite Ullmannite
Vivianite

29 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
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			1	184028	9052
Bavenite ()*	None	Ca₄Be_2+xAl_2-xSi₉O_26-x(OH)_2+x (x = 0 to 1)	150	150	1	184132	255
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)			1	184095	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	150	150	5	183997,184028,184038,184095,184136	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	204	203	5	183998,184077,184084,184110,184168	3902
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O			1	184096	2970
Ferrimolybdite ()*	None	Fe³⁺₂(Mo⁶⁺O₄)₃·7H₂O			1	184000	345
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			43	183968,183969,183971,183991,183993,183994,183999,184006,184007,184008,184011,184013,184016,184018,184019,184021,184022,184025,184031,184033,184038,184039,184042,184048,184054,184060,184071,184081,184087,184091,184093,184099,184101,184103,184111,184112,184113,184116,184127,184133,184139,184140,184157	30554
Hollingworthite ()*	Ullmannite	RhAsS			1	184101	119
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir			1	184101	162
Laurite ()*	Pyrite	RuS₂			1	184101	226
Magnesiochromite ()*	Spinel	MgCr₂O₄			1	184125	311
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			2	183997,184000	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	150	150	1	184136	17380
Osmium ()*	None	Os			1	184101	169
Palladium ()*	Copper	Pd			1	184101	59
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt			1	184101	485
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	150	150	3	183997,184095,184136	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈			1	183997	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			3	184029,184038,184071	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)			1	184065	969
Rutheniridosmine ()*	None	(Ir,Os,Ru)			1	184101	47
Ruthenium ()*	None	Ru			1	184101	46
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)			1	184029	4894
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	150	150	1	184136	21482
Sylvanite ()*	Melonite	AgAuTe₄			1	184031	337
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	150	150	1	184136	5317
Uvarovite ()*	Garnet	Ca₃Cr₂(SiO₄)₃			1	184125	212
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O			1	183996	636

6 Ages assigned to this locality:

Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Sample Source	Dated Mineral	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference ID
podchrome-00197	204	204	Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic or older (204±2 Ma U-Pb zircon on leucodiorite)					Cr	98489	Arbucco Prospects (Sharrer Prospects), Woodleaf, Forbestown District, Yuba Co., California, USA	Arbucco Prospects	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
USGS-U-Th-Pb-02565_206_238	163	163	163	206_238	age of intrusion	zircon	Zircon		98553	Lone Cedar Occurrence, Frenchtown, Yuba Co., California, USA		USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-02565_207_206	162	162	162	207_206	age of intrusion	zircon	Zircon		98553	Lone Cedar Occurrence, Frenchtown, Yuba Co., California, USA		USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
USGS-U-Th-Pb-02565_207_235	162	162	162	207_235	age of intrusion	zircon	Zircon		98553	Lone Cedar Occurrence, Frenchtown, Yuba Co., California, USA		USGS-U-Th-Pb	USGS-U-Th-Pb
podchrome-00196	203	203	Lower-Middle Jurassic (203-171 Ma U-Pb zircons from metadiorite and metatonalite)					Cr	98557	Magruder Prospects, North Star, Yuba Co., California, USA	Magruder Prospect	Moiser et al. (2012)	USGSSIR2012_5157
vms-01046	150	150	Upper Jurassic					S	98618	Western World Mine (Dempsey Ranch Prospect), Smartville, Smartville District, Yuba Co., California, USA	Western World	Moiser et al. (2009)	USGSOFR2009_1034

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