Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Eagle Mountain, Eagle Mountains Mining District (Monte Negro Mining District), Eagle Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA

mindat Locality ID: 294938
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-294938.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Eagle Mountain, Eagle Mountains Mining District (Monte Negro Mining District), Eagle Mts, Riverside Co., California, USA": 18
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 17

Number of Child Localities: 17
Child Localities:
Belt Mine
Big Henry Occurrence
Black Eagle Mine
Black Giant Deposit
Cactus Group (Cactus Mine)
Eagle Mountain Mine (Eagle Mountain Iron Mine; Eagle Mountain Iron Deposit; Kaiser Steel Corp.)
Iron Chief Mine (Iron Chief Deposit; Gray Eagle Group; Messenger Mine)
Lost Mayan Jade Mines
Mission Sweet Mine
Mystery Mine (Mirtry Mine)
Nancy Deposit
Orofino Prospects [?] (Unidentified Workings)
Rainbows End Mine (Annie Laurie; Nancy)
Storm Sulfide Deposit (Green Giant-Long Green Deposit)
Unnamed Au Prospect [11]
Unnamed Limestone Occurrence [2]
Waterloo Occurrence

Latitude: 33°51'55"N
Longitude: 115°34'39"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 33.865277777778,-115.5775

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.

Allophane	Amphibole	Apatite	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper
Corundum	Diaspore	Epidote	Fluorite	Gypsum	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite
Quartz	Rocksalt	Scheelite	Serpentine	Spinel	Talc	Titanite	Vesuvianite	Wollastonite

Actinolite ()*	Anglesite ()*	Ankerite ()*	Azurite ()*	Bayldonite ()*
Calcite ()*	Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Cuprite ()*
Dolomite ()*	Epidote ()*	Fluorite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*
Gold ()*	Gypsum ()*	Hematite ()*	Lizardite ()*	Maghemite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*
Scheelite ()*	Talc ()*	Titanite ()*	Tremolite ()*	Vanadinite ()*
Vesuvianite ()*	Wollastonite ()*

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 As Au C Ca Cl Cu F Fe H K Mg Na O Pb S Si Ti V W

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Ca F

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amphibole Apatite Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper
Corundum Diaspore Epidote Fluorite Gypsum Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite
Quartz Rocksalt Scheelite Serpentine Spinel Talc Titanite Vesuvianite Wollastonite

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	169073	3419
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)	1	169069	2734
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	3	169073,169075,169076	3092
Azurite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂	2	169069,169080	5509
Bayldonite ()*	None	Cu₃PbO(AsO₃OH)₂(OH)₂	1	169069	172
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	169072	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	169069	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	3	169073,169078,169080	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	3	169069,169075,169076	3531
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	169069	2970
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	4	169072,169073,169074,169075	9895
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	4	169072,169075,169076,169081	8173
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	0		9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	1	169069	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	169072	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	4	169069,169073,169076,169080	30554
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	169072	6890
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	3	169072,169073,169076	14640
Lizardite ()*	Serpentine Clay	Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	169069,169073	359
Maghemite ()*	Spinel	(Fe³⁺_0.67 _0.33)Fe³⁺₂O₄	1	169072	229
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	4	169072,169073,169075,169076	14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	4	169069,169076,169078,169080	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	169072	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	3	169072,169073,169076	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	169069,169072	61156
Scheelite ()*	Scheelite	Ca(WO₄)	1	169068	4894
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	169072	3337
Titanite ()*	Titanite	CaTi(SiO₄)O	1	169072	4899
Tremolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_5.0-4.5Fe²⁺_0.0-0.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	169072	2562
Vanadinite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl	1	169069	605
Vesuvianite ()*	Vesuvianite	(Ca,Na)₁₉(Al,Mg,Fe)₁₃(SiO₄)₁₀(Si₂O₇)₄(OH,F,O)₁₀	1	169081	1395
Wollastonite ()*	Wollastonite	CaSiO₃	1	169072	1247

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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