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Locality Name:
Pen-Shan Ore Body, Chinkuashih Mine (Jinguashi Mine; Kinkwaseki Mine; Kinkaseki Mine), Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province, Taiwan


mindat Locality ID: 8084
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-8084.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Pen-Shan Ore Body, Chinkuashih Mine (Jinguashi Mine; Kinkwaseki Mine; Kinkaseki Mine), Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province, Taiwan": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 25°6'21"N
Longitude: 121°51'34"E
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 25.105833333333,121.85944444444

AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe 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.

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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K O Pb S Sb Si Te Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As Au Ba C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K O Pb S Sb Si Te Zn 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AragoniteBaryteBournoniteCalciteChalcopyriteCopperEnargiteGeocroniteMeloniteNone
PyriteQuartzRocksaltSphaleriteStanniteTetrahedriteWurtzite

22 IMA Minerals at location:
Alunite  (*)Baryte  (*)Bournonite  (*)Calaverite  (*)Calcite  (*)
Cerussite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)Cinnabar  (*)Enargite  (*)Famatinite  (*)
Galena  (*)Geocronite  (*)Gold  (*)Gratonite  (*)Luzonite  (*)
Mercury  (*)Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scorodite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Alunite  (*)NoneKAl3(SO4)2(OH)60966
Baryte  (*)BaryteBa(SO4)011547
Bournonite  (*)BournoniteCuPbSbS301089
Calaverite  (*)MeloniteAuTe20361
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)027770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)04979
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2027198
Cinnabar  (*)NoneHgS02600
Enargite  (*)Enargite WurtziteCu3AsS40910
Famatinite  (*)Stannite SphaleriteCu3SbS40163
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS024243
Geocronite  (*)GeocronitePb14Sb6S230133
Gold  (*)CopperAu030554
Gratonite  (*)NonePb9As4S15024
Luzonite  (*)Stannite SphaleriteCu3AsS40198
Mercury  (*)NoneHg0397
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2039462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2061156
Scorodite  (*)NoneFe3+(AsO4)·2H2O01153
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS021482
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S1301803
Tetrahedrite-(Zn)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Zn2)Sb4S1305317



No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

SampleSource LocalityReference URL
R060390Pen-Shan Ore Body, Chinkuashih Mine (Jinguashi Mine; Kinkwaseki Mine; Kinkaseki Mine), Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province, Taiwanhttps://rruff.info/R060390


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