Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Snelling, Snelling District, Merced Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 219129
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-219129.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Snelling, Snelling District, Merced Co., California, USA": 11
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 10

Number of Child Localities: 10
Child Localities:
B And W Mining Company Placer Mine
Dry Creek Placer Tailings
Merced Dredging Company Placer Mine
Merced River
San Joaquin Mining Company Placer Mine
Snelling Gold Dredging Company Placer Mine
Unnamed Placer Au Mine (1)
Unnamed Placer Au Mine (2)
Yosemite Mining And Dredging Company Placer Mine
Yuba Consolidated Goldfields Placer Mine

Latitude: 37°31'46"N
Longitude: 120°24'58"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 37.529444444444,-120.41611111111

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	Corundum	None	Pyrite	Rutile	Spinel	Zircon

Chromite ()*	Cooperite ()*	Gold ()*	Hematite ()*	Ilmenite ()*
Iridium ()*	Magnetite ()*	Platinum ()*	Pyrite ()*	Rutheniridosmine ()*
Rutile ()*	Sperrylite ()*	Thorite ()*	Zircon ()*

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 Cr Fe Ir O Os Pt Ru S Si Th Ti Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Copper Corundum None Pyrite Rutile Spinel Zircon

14 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	2	163788,163795	3902
Cooperite ()*	None	PtS	1	163789	124
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	9	163785,163786,163787,163790,163791,163792,163793,163794,163795	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	2	163788,163795	14640
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	2	163788,163795	5433
Iridium ()*	Copper	Ir	1	163789	162
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	2	163788,163795	14899
Platinum ()*	Copper	Pt	6	163787,163789,163790,163791,163794,163795	485
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	163788,163795	39462
Rutheniridosmine ()*	None	(Ir,Os,Ru)	1	163789	47
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	2	163788,163795	5614
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	1	163789	337
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	2	163788,163795	1006
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	2	163788,163795	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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