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:
Ishpeming, Marquette Iron Range, Marquette Co., Michigan, USA

mindat Locality ID: 125536
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-125536.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ishpeming, Marquette Iron Range, Marquette Co., Michigan, USA": 19
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 18

Number of Child Localities: 18
Child Localities:
Cleveland Lake Group (Lake Mine)
Cleveland Mine
Cliffs Shaft Mine (Barnum; Lake Superior Group; Section 10 Exploration; Bancroft; Moro Mine)
Detroit Mine (Norwich Mine)
East New York Iron Mine
Hard Ore Mine
Jasper Hill (Jasper Knob)
Jubilee IGA Grocery Store Site
Lake Angeline Mine (East End; Angeline)
Lake Bancroft
Lake Superior Mine (Hematite; Section 10 Exploration; Holmes-Section 16; Hard Ore; Section 21)
Mitchell Mine (Braastad-Mitchell; Shenango)
Moro Mine (Cliffs Shaft; Cleveland Mine)
New York Mine (York Mine)
Ogden Mine
Section 16 Mine
Sellwood Mine
Tilden Mine (Cliff Drives III; Tilden Pit)

Latitude: 46°28'59"N
Longitude: 87°39'38"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.483055555556,-87.660555555556

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	Aragonite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Corundum	Diaspore	Feldspar
Hexahydrite	Kaolinite	None	Pyrite	Quartz	Rutile	Spinel	Starkeyite

Ankerite ()*	Aragonite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Chalcopyrite ()*	Goethite ()*	Grunerite ()*	Hematite ()*	Hexahydrite ()*
Kaolinite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Manganite ()*	Microcline ()*	Neotocite ()*
Pseudomalachite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rutile ()*	Siderite ()*
Starkeyite ()*

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 Ba C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg Mn O P S Si Ti

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: C Ca O

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Amphibole Aragonite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Corundum Diaspore Feldspar
Hexahydrite Kaolinite None Pyrite Quartz Rutile Spinel Starkeyite

21 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Ankerite ()*	None	Ca(Fe²⁺,Mg)(CO₃)₂	1	222273	3092
Aragonite ()*	Aragonite	Ca(CO₃)	0		3250
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	2	222263,222271	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	222258	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	1	222273	27770
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	2	222258,222273	27198
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	13	222256,222257,222258,222259,222263,222264,222266,222267,222268,222270,222271,222272,222273	7437
Grunerite ()*	Amphibole	Fe²⁺₂Fe²⁺₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	1	222265	223
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	14	222256,222257,222258,222259,222262,222263,222264,222266,222267,222268,222269,222270,222271,222273	14640
Hexahydrite ()*	Hexahydrite	Mg(SO₄)·6H₂O	1	222273	251
Kaolinite ()*	Clay Kaolinite	Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄	2	222256,222266	5591
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	10	222256,222257,222258,222259,222264,222266,222267,222268,222270,222273	14899
Manganite ()*	Rutile	Mn³⁺O(OH)	1	222263	770
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	222257	4924
Neotocite ()*	Allophane	(Mn,Fe)SiO₃·H₂O (?)	1	222263	186
Pseudomalachite ()*	None	Cu₅(PO₄)₂(OH)₄	1	222274	369
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	2	222257,222258	39462
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	13	222256,222257,222258,222259,222262,222263,222264,222266,222267,222268,222270,222271,222273	61156
Rutile ()*	Rutile	TiO₂	1	222267	5614
Siderite ()*	Calcite	Fe(CO₃)	2	222265,222273	6417
Starkeyite ()*	Starkeyite	Mg(SO₄)·4H₂O	1	222273	79

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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