Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon Co., Michigan, USA

mindat Locality ID: 68250
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-68250.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Mass Consolidated Mine, Mass City, Ontonagon Co., Michigan, USA": 5
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 5

Number of Child Localities: 5
Child Localities:
Hazard Mine
Mass Mine
Merrimac Mine
Ogima Mine
Ridge Mine

Latitude: 46°45'54"N
Longitude: 89°5'30"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 46.765,-89.091666666667

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	Calcite	Clinozoisite	Copper	Epidote	Feldspar	Gadolinite	Gypsum	Malachite	None
Not in a structural group	Plancheite	Prehnite	Pumpellyite	Quartz

Anhydrite ()*	Calcite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*	Datolite ()*
Epidote ()*	Gypsum ()*	Malachite ()*	Microcline ()*	Paramelaconite ()*
Plancheite ()*	Prehnite ()*	Pumpellyite-(Mg) ()*	Quartz ()*	Silver ()*
Tenorite ()*

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: Ag Al B C Ca Cu Fe H K Mg O S Si

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al Ca H Mg O Si

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Calcite Clinozoisite Copper Epidote Feldspar Gadolinite Gypsum Malachite None
Not in a structural group Plancheite Prehnite Pumpellyite Quartz

16 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anhydrite ()*	Not in a structural group	Ca(SO₄)	1	222696	1588
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	2	222696,222699	27770
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	222696	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	2	222696,222699	3846
Datolite ()*	Gadolinite	CaB(SiO₄)(OH)	3	222696,222698,222699	498
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	2	222696,222699	8173
Gypsum ()*	Gypsum	Ca(SO₄)·2H₂O	1	222696	6890
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	1	222698	12537
Microcline ()*	Feldspar	K(AlSi₃O₈)	1	222696	4924
Paramelaconite ()*	None	Cu¹⁺₂Cu²⁺₂O₃	1	222696	13
Plancheite ()*	Plancheite	Cu₈(Si₄O₁₁)₂(OH)₄·H₂O	1	222696	74
Prehnite ()*	Prehnite	Ca₂Al(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	1	222696	1898
Pumpellyite-(Mg) ()*	Pumpellyite	Ca₂MgAl₂(Si₂O₇)(SiO₄)(OH)₂·H₂O	0		106
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	2	222696,222699	61156
Silver ()*	Copper	Ag	2	222696,222699	5186
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	222696	1101

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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