Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mirador, Tulare Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 130
Youngest recorded age at locality: 110

mindat Locality ID: 252777
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-252777.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mirador, Tulare Co., California, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 13

Number of Child Localities: 13
Child Localities:
Billy Brown Prospect
Blue Crystal Magnesite Group (Western Fraction Claim; Blue Crystal No. 2 Claim; Yellow Metal Claim; Blue Crystal; Blue Crystal No. 1 Claim; Kaolin King Claim)
Blue Crystal Prospect
Brown Borrow Pit
California Magnesite Camp 4
Cemetery Borrow Pit
Fairview Magnesite Mines (Fairview; Fairview Claim; Fairview No. 1 Claim; Last Chance Claim)
Gill Mine
Gill Ranch Deposit (Gill Ranch Prospect)
Headburg Magnesite Prospect
Keokuk Claim
Montgomery Property (Davis Lease)
Simons Limestone Deposit (Valley Lime Company; Oat Canyon Deposit; Lindsay; Abramson And Bode)

Latitude: 36°10'42"N
Longitude: 118°59'14"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.178333333333,-118.98722222222

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.

Calcite	None	Rhodonite

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: C Mg Mn O Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Calcite None Rhodonite

2 IMA Minerals at location:

Magnesite ()*	Rhodonite ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Magnesite ()*	Calcite	Mg(CO₃)	130	110	6	182491,182494,182496,182499,182500,182501	1487
Rhodonite ()*	Rhodonite	CaMn₃Mn(Si₅O₁₅)			1	182498	969

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	NAVDAT-30898	130	110	118+12/-8					30898						97340	Headburg Magnesite Prospect, Mirador, Tulare Co., California, USA		NAVDAT		NAVDAT

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