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Apatite from
Eagle Mountain Mine (Eagle Mountain Iron Mine; Eagle Mountain Iron deposit; Kaiser Steel Corp.), Eagle Mountain, Eagle Mountains Mining District (Monte Negro Mining District), Eagle Mountains, Riverside County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3A
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Pyroxene Group
Scapolite
Titanite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eagle Mountain Mine (Eagle Mountain Iron Mine; Eagle Mountain Iron deposit; Kaiser Steel Corp.), Eagle Mountain, Eagle Mountains Mining District (Monte Negro Mining District), Eagle Mountains, Riverside County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:668796
Long-form Identifier:1:3:668796:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
40.3km (25.0 miles) ⓘU-Thor claims (Unnamed U deposit; U-Thor deposit), Music Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
41.8km (26.0 miles) ⓘIron Cap No. 2 claim (Iron King No. 1 & No. 2 claims; Iron King claim), Palen Mountains, Riverside County, California, USA
43.7km (27.2 miles) ⓘMusic Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
43.9km (27.3 miles) ⓘMusic Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
76.1km (47.3 miles) ⓘOpal Hill Mine, Mule Mountains District (Hodges Mountain District), Riverside County, California, USA
80.6km (50.1 miles) ⓘIron Cap No. 1 claim, Iron Cap claims, Black Hill, Big Maria Mountains, Riverside County, California, USA
91.6km (56.9 miles) ⓘDish Hill Crater (Dish Hill; Siberia Hill; Siberia Hill Crater), Trojan, San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
Harder, Edmund Cecil (1912), Iron-ore deposits of the Eagle Mountains, California: USGS Bulletin 503: 54
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 328.
 
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