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Locality Name:
Marysville, New River District, Salmon Mts, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA


mindat Locality ID: 240693
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-240693.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Marysville, New River District, Salmon Mts, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Armstrong Mine
Big Bar Placer
Brizard Mine
Carey Ridge Mercury Occurrence
Carrie Occurrence
Esther Mine (Blue Jay Mine; Cinnabar Mine; New River Mine)
Excelsior Prospect (Rusty Prospect)
Hardtack Mine
Hardtimes Mine
Hidden Treasure Mine
High Grade And Teressa Prospect (High Grade & Teressa Prospect; Teresa Prospect)
Hunter Mine
Mary Blaine Mine
Ridgeway Mine (Lucky Strike Mine; Cinnabar [?])
Sherwood Mine
Toughnut Mine
Uncle Sam Mine
Unnamed Au Placer (76)

Latitude: 41°5'7"N
Longitude: 123°16'26"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 41.085277777778,-123.27388888889
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 Cu Fe Hg Ir O Os Ru S Si 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ChalcopyriteCopperNickelineNonePyriteQuartz

7 IMA Minerals at location:
Chalcopyrite  (*)Cinnabar  (*)Gold  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyrrhotite  (*)
Quartz  (*)Rutheniridosmine  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2118164727198
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS2181640,1816422600
Gold  (*)CopperAu10181637,181638,181639,181644,181645,181648,181649,181650,181652,18165330554
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS22181647,18165139462
Pyrrhotite  (*)NickelineFe7S811816479056
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO212181637,181639,181642,181644,181645,181647,181648,181649,181650,181651,181652,18165361156
Rutheniridosmine  (*)None(Ir,Os,Ru)118163847


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
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