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Locality Name:
Tule Mountain (Mount Tule; Tulley Mountain), Jacumba, Jacumba District, Jacumba Mts, San Diego Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 217659
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-217659.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Tule Mountain (Mount Tule; Tulley Mountain), Jacumba, Jacumba District, Jacumba Mts, San Diego Co., California, USA": 8
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 8

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Beebe Hole Mine
Corundum Occurrence
Crystal Gem Mine (Crystal; Ruby Deposit; Ruby Group; Old School Mine)
Gemstone Prospect
Manganes Prospect
Pack Rat Mine
Tule Mountain Area
Tule Mountain Deposit (Tulley Mountain Deposit)

Latitude: 32°42'44"N
Longitude: 116°13'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.712222222222,-116.23027777778

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.

Apatite	Arseniosiderite	Beryl	Cancrinite-sodalite	Childrenite	Clay	Danburite	Feldspar	Gadolinite	Garnet
Hureaulite	Mica	None	Olivine	Phosphosiderite	Pyroxene	Quartz	Rhodonite	Rockbridgeite	Rutile
Smectite-vermiculite	Sodalite	Tourmaline

Albite ()*	Beryl ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Danburite ()*	Eosphorite ()*
Fluorapatite ()*	Frondelite ()*	Helvine ()*	Hureaulite ()*	Hydroxylherderite ()*
Lithiophilite ()*	Microcline ()*	Mitridatite ()*	Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*
Orthoclase ()*	Phosphosiderite ()*	Purpurite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rhodonite ()*
Robertsite ()*	Schorl ()*	Spessartine ()*	Spodumene ()*	Strengite ()*

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 Be Ca F Fe H K Li Mg Mn Na O P S Si Sn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Arseniosiderite Beryl Cancrinite-sodalite Childrenite Clay Danburite Feldspar Gadolinite Garnet
Hureaulite Mica None Olivine Phosphosiderite Pyroxene Quartz Rhodonite Rockbridgeite Rutile
Smectite-vermiculite Sodalite Tourmaline

25 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Albite ()*	Feldspar	Na(AlSi₃O₈)	3	174543,174545,174548	8803
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	4	174543,174545,174548,174549	4286
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	2	174543,174548	5171
Danburite ()*	Danburite	CaB₂Si₂O₈	1	174548	148
Eosphorite ()*	Childrenite	Mn²⁺Al(PO₄)(OH)₂·H₂O	1	174548	128
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	1	174543	2740
Frondelite ()*	Rockbridgeite	(Mn²⁺_0.5Fe³⁺_0.5)₂Fe³⁺₃(PO₄)₃(OH)₅	1	174548	52
Helvine ()*	Sodalite Cancrinite-sodalite	Be₃Mn²⁺₄(SiO₄)₃S	1	174548	237
Hureaulite ()*	Hureaulite	Mn²⁺₅(PO₃OH)₂(PO₄)₂·4H₂O	1	174548	125
Hydroxylherderite ()*	Gadolinite	CaBe(PO₄)(OH)	2	174543,174548	119
Lithiophilite ()*	Olivine	LiMn²⁺(PO₄)	2	174543,174548	155
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	2	174543,174548	4924
Mitridatite ()*	Arseniosiderite	Ca₂Fe³⁺₃O₂(PO₄)₃·3H₂O	1	174548	129
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	2	174543,174548	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	2	174543,174548	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	174545	2349
Phosphosiderite ()*	Phosphosiderite	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	174548	182
Purpurite ()*	Olivine	Mn³⁺(PO₄)	2	174543,174548	80
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	174543,174548	61156
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)	1	174547	969
Robertsite ()*	Arseniosiderite	Ca₂Mn³⁺₃O₂(PO₄)₃·3H₂O	1	174548	36
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	3	174543,174545,174548	2705
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	4	174543,174545,174547,174548	1214
Spodumene ()*	Pyroxene	LiAlSi₂O₆	2	174543,174548	688
Strengite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·2H₂O	1	174548	263

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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