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:
Canyon City, Canyon Creek District, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 212408
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-212408.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Canyon City, Canyon Creek District, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA": 20
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 20

Number of Child Localities: 20
Child Localities:
Andy Placer
Anna Bell Mine (Anna Bell Cinnabar Mine)
Bed Rock Tunnel (Heimburger)
Bigelow Mine
Burger Occurrence
Canyon City Meteorite
Clipper Claim
Crazy Jim Placer
Fisher Gulch And Bonanza Claims Mine
Forty Dollar Gulch Placer Mine
Gold Dollar Nos. 1-5 Claims
Guthrie Placer Mine
Heimburger Placer Mine (Bed Rock Tunnel)
La Grange Hydraulic Mine
Maple Placer Mine
Meckel-Fields Mine (General Lee Mine; Klondike Mine)
Red Flat Placer Mine (Dannenbrink Mine)
Trinity River Placer
Uphill Minco Occurrence (Hornet Bar)
Wolff Brothers Placer

Latitude: 40°48'58"N
Longitude: 123°3'16"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.816111111111,-123.05444444444

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.

Copper	Iron	None	Quartz

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: Au Fe Hg Ni O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper Iron None Quartz

6 IMA Minerals at location:

Cinnabar ()*	Gold ()*	Iron ()*	Quartz ()*	Taenite ()*
Troilite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	1	180998	2600
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	9	180999,181000,181005,181006,181008,181009,181010,181011,181013	30554
Iron ()*	Iron	Fe	1	181002	1089
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	181000,181005	61156
Taenite ()*	None	(Ni,Fe)	1	181002	703
Troilite ()*	None	FeS	1	181002	1044

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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