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:
New Idria Mine (New Idria Group; New Hope Vein), Idria (New Idria), New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 5.3
Youngest recorded age at locality: 0

mindat Locality ID: 3537
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3537.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "New Idria Mine (New Idria Group; New Hope Vein), Idria (New Idria), New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA": 1
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 1

Number of Child Localities: 1
Child Localities:
Sulphur Spring Ore Body

Latitude: 36°24'51"N
Longitude: 120°40'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 36.414166666667,-120.67333333333

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.

Alunite	Amorphous	Clay	Epsomite	Melanterite	Millerite	None	Serpentine	Sphalerite	Stibnite
Vivianite	Voltaite

Cinnabar ()*	Diadochite ()*	Dolomite ()*	Epsomite ()*	Idrialite ()*
Jarosite ()*	Koninckite ()*	Melanterite ()*	Mercury ()*	Metacinnabar ()*
Millerite ()*	Pecoraite ()*	Stibnite ()*	Tiemannite ()*	Vivianite ()*
Voltaite ()*

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 C Ca Fe H Hg K Mg Ni O P S Sb Se Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al C Ca Fe H Hg K Mg Ni O P S Sb Se Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Alunite Amorphous Clay Epsomite Melanterite Millerite None Serpentine Sphalerite Stibnite
Vivianite Voltaite

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Cinnabar ()*	None	HgS	5.3	0		2600
Diadochite ()*	Amorphous	Fe³⁺₂(PO₄)(SO₄)(OH)·6H₂O	5.3	0		81
Dolomite ()*	None	CaMg(CO₃)₂	5.3	0		9895
Epsomite ()*	Epsomite	Mg(SO₄)·7H₂O	5.3	0		484
Idrialite ()*	None	C₂₂H₁₄	5.3	0		15
Jarosite ()*	Alunite	KFe³⁺₃(SO₄)₂(OH)₆	5.3	0		2228
Koninckite ()*	None	Fe³⁺(PO₄)·3H₂O	5.3	0		19
Melanterite ()*	Melanterite	Fe(SO₄)·7H₂O	5.3	0		915
Mercury ()*	None	Hg	5.3	0		397
Metacinnabar ()*	Sphalerite	HgS	5.3	0		255
Millerite ()*	Millerite	NiS	5.3	0		1066
Pecoraite ()*	Clay Serpentine	Ni₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄	5.3	0		40
Stibnite ()*	Stibnite	Sb₂S₃	5.3	0		3418
Tiemannite ()*	Sphalerite	HgSe	5.3	0		83
Vivianite ()*	Vivianite	Fe²⁺₃(PO₄)₂·8H₂O	5.3	1	170157	636
Voltaite ()*	Voltaite	K₂Fe²⁺₅Fe³⁺₃Al(SO₄)₁₂·18H₂O	5.3	0		111

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
	Hg-00045	5.3	0		?-?						Yes		Calomel, Cinnabar, Clearcreekite, Deanesmithite, Edgarbaileyite, Edoylerite, Gianellaite, Hanawaltite, Mercury, Metacinnabar, Montroydite, Mosesite, Peterbaylissite, Schuetteite, Szymanskiite, Tedhadleyite, Terlinguaite, Tiemannite, Wattersite, Eglestonite	Hg	6418	New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA	California Mercury Occurrences	Studemeister (1984)	10.1007/BF00199786	MD19_202

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