Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Cahuilla District, Riverside Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 25824
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-25824.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Cahuilla District, Riverside Co., California, USA": 43
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 34

Number of Child Localities: 8
Child Localities:
Anza Valley
Bautista Canyon
Cahuilla Mountain
Little Cahuilla Mountain
Mine-All-Mine
Red Mountain
Thomas Mountain [town]
Tripp Flats

Latitude: 33°36'39"N
Longitude: 116°45'51"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.610833333333,-116.76416666667

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.

Andalusite	Apatite	Axinite	Beryl	Chlorite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Columbite	Corundum	Epidote
Feldspar	Garnet	Kaolinite	Mica	Monazite	None	Not in a structural group	Prehnite	Pyroxene	Quartz
Rutile	Smectite-vermiculite	Spinel	Tourmaline	Zircon

Albite ()*	Almandine ()*	Amblygonite ()*	Andalusite ()*	Axinite-(Fe) ()*
Beryl ()*	Cassiterite ()*	Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Columbite-(Mn) ()*	Cookeite ()*
Corundum ()*	Elbaite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Foitite ()*
Ilmenite ()*	Kaolinite ()*	Laumontite ()*	Microcline ()*	Monazite-(Ce) ()*
Montmorillonite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Orthoclase ()*	Prehnite ()*	Quartz ()*
Schorl ()*	Spessartine ()*	Spinel ()*	Spodumene ()*	Stibiotantalite ()*
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	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: Al B Be Ca Ce F Fe H K Li Mg Mn Na Nb O P Sb Si Sn Ta Ti Y Zr

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca H O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Andalusite Apatite Axinite Beryl Chlorite Clay Clinozoisite Columbite Corundum Epidote
Feldspar Garnet Kaolinite Mica Monazite None Not in a structural group Prehnite Pyroxene Quartz
Rutile Smectite-vermiculite Spinel Tourmaline Zircon

32 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)	10	168843,168854,168861,168862,168865,168866,168867,168868,168871,168874	8803
Almandine ()*	Garnet	Fe²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	6	168854,168862,168865,168868,168871,168874	2353
Amblygonite ()*	None	LiAl(PO₄)F	2	168854,168866	244
Andalusite ()*	Andalusite	Al₂SiO₅	1	168864	1310
Axinite-(Fe) ()*	Axinite	Ca₄Fe²⁺₂Al₄[B₂Si₈O₃₀](OH)₂	1	168865	260
Beryl ()*	Beryl	Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈	6	168854,168865,168866,168867,168868,168870	4286
Cassiterite ()*	Rutile	SnO₂	2	168865,168866	5171
Columbite-(Fe) ()*	Columbite	Fe²⁺Nb₂O₆	1	168862	518
Columbite-(Mn) ()*	Columbite	Mn²⁺Nb₂O₆	1	168866	289
Cookeite ()*	Chlorite Clay	(Al,Li)₃Al₂(Si,Al)₄O₁₀(OH)₈	1	168871	181
Corundum ()*	Corundum	Al₂O₃	1	168864	1797
Elbaite ()*	Tourmaline	Na(Al_1.5Li_1.5)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	6	168854,168866,168868,168870,168874,168879	520
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	1	168868	8173
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F	2	168848,168865	2740
Foitite ()*	Tourmaline	(Fe²⁺₂Al)Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	1	168870	75
Ilmenite ()*	Corundum	Fe²⁺Ti⁴⁺O₃	1	168865	5433
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	168871,168874	5591
Laumontite ()*	Not in a structural group	CaAl₂Si₄O₁₂·4H₂O	0		1271
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	10	168843,168848,168854,168864,168865,168866,168867,168868,168871,168874	4924
Monazite-(Ce) ()*	Monazite	Ce(PO₄)	1	168865	945
Montmorillonite ()*	Clay Smectite-vermiculite	(Na,Ca)_0.3(Al,Mg)₂Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂·nH₂O	1	168874	1508
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	11	168848,168853,168854,168862,168864,168865,168866,168867,168868,168871,168874	17380
Orthoclase ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	4	168848,168865,168868,168871	2349
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	168851	1898
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	16	168844,168848,168851,168854,168862,168864,168865,168866,168867,168868,168870,168871,168872,168874,168879,168882	61156
Schorl ()*	Tourmaline	NaFe²⁺₃Al₆(Si₆O₁₈)(BO₃)₃(OH)₃(OH)	11	168844,168848,168854,168864,168865,168866,168867,168868,168871,168874,168879	2705
Spessartine ()*	Garnet	Mn²⁺₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃	3	168854,168865,168874	1214
Spinel ()*	Spinel	MgAl₂O₄	2	168846,168880	1934
Spodumene ()*	Pyroxene	LiAlSi₂O₆	2	168854,168866	688
Stibiotantalite ()*	None	Sb³⁺TaO₄	1	168862	53
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	168865	939
Zircon ()*	Zircon	Zr(SiO₄)	1	168868	5251

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL
R050258	Bautista Canyon, Cahuilla District, Riverside Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/R050258
X050141	Cahuilla Mountain, Cahuilla District, Riverside Co., California, USA	https://rruff.info/X050141

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