Mineral Evolution Database

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Mineral locality data provided by mindat.org

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The goal of this page is to present localities at which the mineral is found, and estimates of the oldest possible geologic age of the minerals at these localities.

Locality Name:
Indian Flat, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 157
Youngest recorded age at locality: 157

mindat Locality ID: 267730
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-267730.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Indian Flat, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA": 28
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 28

Number of Child Localities: 28
Child Localities:
Aetna Ledge Mine [1]
Corn Mine (Coan Mine)
Crescent Quartz Mine (Crescent Qtz.)
Debarnardi Mine
Eden Claim
Forest Mine
Giacomella Placer (Giacomealla)
Hilda & Ragon Lode Mine
Homestake Quartz Mine (Homestake Qtz.)
Kirkham Mine
Loyal Gravel Placer Mine
Mount Charles Placer (Mt. Charles Placer)
Mount George Mine
Nevada City Mine
North End Lode Mine (North End Mine)
North Wyoming Mine (Muller & Walling Mine)
Queen Lil Mine (Queen Mine; Buffington Mine)
Ragon Mine (Hilda & Ragon)
Rogers Mine
Scaggs Quartz Mine (Scaggs; Scaggs Qtz)
Schmidt Extension Lode Mine (Schmidt Ext. Lode; Schmidt Extension)
Spanish Fraction Lode Mine (Spanish)
Spanish Gold Quartz Mine (Spanish Gold Qtz.; Spanish Mine)
Spring Ravine Placer
Standard Consolidated Quartz Mine (Standard Consolidated; Standard Con Qtz.; Standard Claim; Standard Extension Claim; Standard Ext.)
Stanford Mine (Oro Fino)
Walling Extension Lode Mine
Yellow Diamond Mine

Latitude: 39°16'27"N
Longitude: 121°3'23"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.274166666667,-121.05638888889

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.

Arsenopyrite	Chalcopyrite	Copper	Molybdenite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Spinel

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: Ag As Au Cr Cu Fe Mo O Pb S Si Te

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Arsenopyrite Chalcopyrite Copper Molybdenite None Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Spinel

9 IMA Minerals at location:

Arsenopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chromite ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Hessite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*

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
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			1	165907	9052
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂			3	165903,165904,165908	27198
Chromite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Cr₂O₄	157	157	1	165895	3902
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS			3	165904,165907,165908	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au			22	165891,165892,165893,165894,165896,165899,165900,165901,165903,165904,165906,165907,165908,165909,165910,165911,165912,165913,165915,165916,165917,165918	30554
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te			1	165904	804
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂			1	165904	5800
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂			3	165904,165907,165908	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			21	165891,165892,165893,165894,165896,165899,165900,165903,165904,165906,165907,165908,165909,165910,165911,165912,165913,165915,165916,165917,165918	61156

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
	podchrome-00169	157	157	Middle Jurassic										Cr	84069	Eden Claim, Indian Flat, Nevada City District, Nevada Co., California, USA	Eden	Moiser et al. (2012)		USGSSIR2012_5157

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