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Locality Name:
Seneca, Plumas Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 235268
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-235268.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Seneca, Plumas Co., California, USA": 33
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 33

Number of Child Localities: 33
Child Localities:
Aum Cove Placer Mine [Alum Cove - ?]
Barker Hill Claim
Boomerang Placer Mine
Calliope Placer Mine
Contennial Mine
Dominion Mine
Dutch Hill Occurrence
Dutchman No. 1 Placer Mine
Glacier Adit
Glazier Mine
Great Divide Mine
Hagard Quartz Mine
Kings Gravel Mine
Kirkham Placer Mine
Larkin-Story-Hazzard Mine
Malvern Hill Placer
Mary Cameron Adit
Miocene Placer Mine (Providence Hill Mine; Indian Placer)
Ratford Placer Mine
Ruth Placer Mine
San Jose Placer
Savercool Au Occurrence
Scott Fred Placer (Kings Drift Placer Mine)
Seneca Development Company Mine
Shaffer Gold Mines Company Claims (Sunset Claim; Rambler Claim; Seneca Claim; Oriole West Claim; Blue Bell Claim)
Sunnyside Mine
Sunnyside Placer Mine
Swiss Placer
The Log Cabin Placer Mine
Unnamed Au Claims (4)
Unnamed Au Occurrence (52)
White Lilly Prospect (Addie Bell Claim; Aeroplane Claim; Gold Point Claim)
Wildcat Mine

Latitude: 40°6'31"N
Longitude: 121°5'21"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 40.108611111111,-121.08916666667

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
CopperNone

1 IMA Minerals at location:
Gold  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Gold  (*)CopperAu17168649,168650,168651,168652,168656,168659,168662,168664,168666,168667,168668,168669,168671,168672,168675,168676,16867730554



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